> Yes they have. You put "held" in quotation marks, why? I think that Russia is going to make this into a 3rd "separatist"/breakway republic. I don't see Russi

> Yes they have. You put "held" in quotation marks, why? I think that Russia is going to make this into a 3rd "separatist"/breakway republic. I don't see Russia even conducting as referendum in Kherson anytime soon, outside of the current offensive the office that as conducting the referendum exploded the other day and pretty much every week collaborators end up dead in multiple ways. > U.S. intelligence allegedly failed to predict this invasion, which makes me think they underestimated Russia's goals and intentions here. Why wouldn't an irrational, paranoid dictator consider nukes? To consider him using weapons in his arsenal "nonsense" is wishful thinking or pulling wool over one's eyes The US was shouting from the roof tops that this invasion was going to happen and where off by less then two weeks about when it would happen, I fail to see how that is 'failing to predict the invasion'/