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MrMakabar@slrpnk.net to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Putin under pressure to declare war on Ukraine, but experts say Russia isn't ready

kyivindependent.com

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Putin under pressure to declare war on Ukraine, but experts say Russia isn't ready

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MrMakabar@slrpnk.net to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Despite suffering over 1 million casualties, pounding Ukrainian cities nightly with missiles and drones, and committing countless war crimes, one startling fact about Russia's full-scale invasion remains — Moscow has yet to officially declare war on Ukraine. In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin described what he believed was going to be a swift victory and the capture of Kyiv within days as a "special military operation." Nearly three-and-a-half years later, the Kremlin is stuck
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    I almost forgot this whole time it was just a ‘special operation’ 🤦

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      3 days max, lol.

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    I- H- …what?

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      Yep… 350,000 people have died in a police action.

      Not-war never-not changes.

      • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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        Yep… 350,000 people have died in a police action.

        I can practically smell Republicans’ collective boner

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      My thoughts exactly

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    Dilemma: declare war or just keep the state-sponsored terrorism going and pretend to be a civilized country?

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