Rob Lee

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Rob Lee @RALee85

You can cherry pick statements from Russian officials to justify various arguments, but in 2021 there was a clear shift in how Russian officials talked about Ukraine, which emphasized that Ukraine was not a sovereign country and that its leaders were illegitimate "vassals." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 17, 2022

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There was no recent push for Ukrainian membership in NATO. Sergei Lavrov had no idea Russia was planning on invading, whereas Putin wrote, "true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia" last July. The war was about Ukraine. https://t.co/yi9t3g60WK https://t.co/l4VUznA6nF — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 17, 2022

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Ukrainian officials were publicly floating concessions in March, including no NATO membership and military limitations. If that had been Russia's ultimate goal, Putin would have accepted them. His goals were more ambitious. https://t.co/GyYV9Cq0rD https://t.co/yZVCPIk8O9 https://t.co/Bf9JdyXZKa — PolitiTweet.org

Russia's ultimate goal in this war is to end an independent Ukraine/Ukrainian identity separate from Russia's, or t… https://t.co/78MpxgqB92

Posted Aug. 17, 2022