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Sittin' in the kitchen, a house in Macon
Loretta's singing on the radio
Smell of coffee, eggs and bacon
Car wheels on a gravel road

(Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Lucinda Williams)

So the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions are now a part of the thousand-year old Russian state, simply by putting a couple of signatures on a piece of paper.

You can find a link to the text of the speech given by Putin for the happy occasion here, but suffice to say that about 3/4th of the material is about how the West is responsible for genocide, shelling, blockades, criminal policy, hatred for Russia, hatred for everything Russian, attempts to break up Russia, dreaming about breaking up Russia, condemning the Russian people to poverty and destruction, condemning the rest of the world to poverty and destruction, plundering the world, total de-sovereignisation, destroying entire states, humanitarian disasters, devastation, ruins, millions of wrecked and mangled human lives, terrorist enclaves, social disaster zones, protectorates, colonies and semi-colonies, nonsens, utter deceit, double or triple standards, dirty deception, wants to turn us all into soulless slaves, denying national sovereignty, denying international law, has features of totalitarianism, despotism, apartheid, political nationalism, racism, started its colonial policy back in the Middle Ages, followed by the worldwide slave trade, genocide of the Indian tribes in America, the Wars of England and France against China, the plunder of India and Africa, got entire nations hooked on drugs and purposefully exterminated entire ethnic groups for the sake of grabbing land and resources, hunting people like animals. And they probably tripped your grandmother down the stairs too.

Perhaps a couple of pictures speak louder than all those words. Did you know Putin likes to tickle big people?

The festivities ofcourse couldn't pass without the casual mentioning of nuclear war, and were given extra stature by raping a critical poet with a dumbbell.

Just another day at the Kremlin.