Originally Posted by chunkstyle
How about the third choice of your framed 3 choices? What did Putin publicly state to the world on the eve of invasion?

Knowing what someone wants should be understood before you can have an opinion?
I watched Putin's speech. It reminded me quite a lot of the BushCo regime's sales pitch for invading Iraq.

Did you get some other sense from what he said?

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