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With just a few strokes of the pen, Ukraine loses the east of its country. Vladimir Putin sets himself up as the liberator of the separatist areas. It is the final act of a play that has been planned for a long time.
It was to be a great, triumphant day. After his security councilor formally begged Vladimir Putin to finally grant freedom to the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, the Kremlin boss stepped in front of the cameras. For an hour he delivered a history lesson to his nation, and with it to the whole world. It was a story of its own that Putin told, full of “facts” but one that the world was hearing for the first time.
For an hour, Putin said that Ukraine owes its very existence to Russia, to the benevolent gifts from Moscow, to the naïve mistakes of the Soviet leaders. “Ukraine should bear the name of Lenin,” Putin rants at a memorable climax of his alternate history, in which one lie follows the next. Anyone who thought Donald Trump could lie hasn’t heard of Vladimir Putin. Ungrateful, traitorous, corrupt, fraudulent: there is almost nothing that Putin does not accuse “of the regime that has seized power over Ukraine.” After an hour, the whole of Russia held its breath, waiting for a declaration of war on this “unworthy state” that Putin formally denied any right to exist.
The day should go down in Russian history
But no. There is no declaration of war at the end. Instead, Putin declares the independence of the so-called People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. Of those republics he’s skipped the whole hour of his fantasy story. Those republics whose leaders sit in the Kremlin as if by chance and sign the declarations of independence a few minutes later. It is the final act in a play with which Putin allows himself to invade the reformed country. It is the end of a day that will go down in Russian history and that has been orchestrated in long preparations. In the end, it is Putin who buries the Minsk Agreement. Fireworks over eastern Ukraine are the icing on the cake.
Vladimir Putin makes prophecy come true
Only a few hours pass and the so-called republics ask Putin for help. And Putin is ordering his troops into their territory – to protect the newly-won independence. Putin orders his defense ministry to ensure “peace through the armed forces of the Russian Federation.” When this command is issued, it is already February 22, 2022 in Moscow. A date to which all followers of numerology, astrology and everything supernatural attach special importance. There are quite a few of them in the Kremlin. For months, Russian state television has been showing programs prophesying big things on this day. Now it turns out that reading coffee grounds was no coincidence.
Source: Stern
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