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My Russian and Ukrainian Referenda if I were US President

If I were president of the United States, I would have a referenda created online...very basic ones that anyone could technically vote on. They would be for Chukotka, Kamchatka, Magadan, Khabarovsk, Sakhalin, and Primorski Krai...the Russian regions bordering the Pacific Ocean. An example referendum would be such:


1) Do you certify that you are a citizen of (Kamchatka, etc)?

2) Do you wish that your region will leave Russia and join the United States? (Yes) (No)

Obviously, people online would be honest about the first question, and then we'd see the percentage answering "Yes" on the second question.

The referendum would be open for a few days, and after that, it would be determined whether any of these regions voted to join the US. Obviously, as president, I would not have the power to annex other regions (and the referenda would be as legitimate as the Russian ones...meaning not legitimate)...BUT...I would move warships and landing ships near the Russian Pacific coast. Obviously, I would not land troops in Russia, but I would still troll them, and they would have to send SOME troops to defend against the actual landing ships that were out at sea. Of course, an incident could potentially occur, so the ships would be on high alert. But they would exist right off the coast in international waters as long as the Ukraine conflict went on, taking Russian troops away from Ukraine.

Another idea would be to have similar referenda for Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Odesa, and Lviv, and then say to Russia, now, since they voted to become part of the US, we will have to defend our own land against invaders (just like Russia is saying with its the places it illegally occupied).

Russia's referenda were a joke, and and if I had the power, I would stand up and show the idiocy of these referenda by doing the same thing in a tongue-in-cheek way, but with real consequences for Russia.


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