This is the rhetoric of someone who won't be happy just with control of the DPR/LPR. This is speech is designed to undermine the very existence of Ukraine as a country.

— Oliver Alexander (@OAlexanderDK) February 21, 2022

The image reminds me of an authoritarian Czar in Russia. #UkraineRussiaConflict #UkraineWar #UkraineConflict. Ivana Kottasová, "Putin ratchets up Ukraine grievances in TV broadcast with top security officials." CNN. 21 Feb 2021, https://t.co/69tarBy8Xt pic.twitter.com/9UMAuiX9bG

— Dr Robert J Bunker (@DocBunker) February 21, 2022

The FSB published a video of a "Ukrainian BMP" (lol) that was supposedly destroyed on the Ru-Ua border. @askai707
could probably figure out which Russian city it was based out a week ago, if you gave him enough time. https://t.co/HgDSkq5PjD pic.twitter.com/D4Jcb4xvVf

— Aric Toler (@AricToler) February 21, 2022

The FSB published a video of a "Ukrainian BMP" (lol) that was supposedly destroyed on the Ru-Ua border. @askai707
could probably figure out which Russian city it was based out a week ago, if you gave him enough time. https://t.co/HgDSkq5PjD pic.twitter.com/D4Jcb4xvVf

— Aric Toler (@AricToler) February 21, 2022

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Quick sequence of some of my favorite #Russia graphics so you can familiarize yourself with the scope of what is unfolding vis-a-vis #Ukraine. Russians live in the green. The wheat belt. The part of Russia that has temperature and rainfall levels to make habitation possible. pic.twitter.com/yA6NOjwsoF

— Peter Zeihan (@PeterZeihan) February 21, 2022