Reports of Ukrainian-Russian Separatists

[no_hypocrisy]

Would that technically create a civil war on top of a Russian invasion?

[Gore1FL]

1. I would think it would just put them neatly into the role of "collaborators."

I am thinking of the Vichy French, or people like Vidkun Quisling in Norway.

[Botany]

2. Would Trump be considered a Quisling?

For the use of Vidkun Quisling. DU has smart people ... not me but others.

[JHB]

3. He has been ever since he asked Russia for Hillary's emails

[Botany]

4. We should all start calling TFG a Quisling

[JHB]

6. Who do you think "Q" is?

[Gore1FL]

8. "Q is for Quisling" would make great t-shirts! nt

[2naSalit]

9. Beat me to it!!

[Gore1FL]

7. I was thinking of Trump being willing to capitulate to Putin for power put him in that category.

I don't know if the scenario is perfect, but that was what I was thinking of when I posted.

[Botany]

10. Everytime that Quisling Trump said "fake news" as per ties between his campaign and Russia ...

... he was lying. Because he knew that Manafort had given Konstantin Kilimnik not just
polling data but data analytics (or what could be turned into data analytics) which allowed
Russia to pin point exactly where and by how much they had to rat fuck our elections in
order to use the Electoral College to install that Quisling Trump.


Thanx for the term Quisling we all should be using it.

BTW Manafort and Flynn should be considered Quislings too.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

5. 1/3 of the country is pro Russian, it's a border dispute, always has been, not worth a war over it

The war mongers on tv are sickening. Germany is invisible, they only care about their pocketbooks, it's Europe's problem, let them handle it

[Tommy Carcetti]

12. No, it's not. nt

[Tommy Carcetti]

11. They have been around since 2014 and are proxies of the Russian army

They have been armed by Russia and infused with members of the Russian military.

Ukraine was invaded 8 years ago.

When Yanukovych fled, Russia took it as an opportunity for expansion.

[dalton99a]

14. +1. The Donetsk People's Republic, the Luhansk People's Republic and the Republic of Crimea

are creations of Putin

[Voltaire2]

13. The plan, as far as I can tell,

is to pump up the violence from ‘separatists’ and goad the Ukraine government into a reaction that can be used as a pretext for Russian intervention to ‘protect’ the alleged separatists communities in eastern Ukraine.

They will then dare the Ukraine government to escalate with 200,000 Russian troops surrounding the region on three sides, or accept the de facto annexation of a large chunk of Ukraine.

[Irish_Dem]

15. This would be Putin's goal. It is what China is planning for Taiwan.

Civil war and invasion.