Re: China India tensions on impact to Global economy possible china India war
That's one of the smaller reasons since the annexed regions are also considered "Russian borders" now (95% of them voted for Putin in the recent election in Russia).
Where did you get this from? Let me guess, official Russian media channels that reported almost everybody voted for Putin. The whole country is pro Putin. The problem is that you cannot and will not get any legit information from Russia. In one of the elections they had so many fake votes for Putin that the total sum of votes exceeded 100%
Yes, the majority voted for Putin. No, it wasn't even close to 80%, not to mention 95%. Things like that don't happen unless the election is tampered with, and Russian elections are every single time. Even the one were Putin got elected for his first term was fixed by the FSB.
The discussion above wasn't about correctness of their election either, it's about buffer zones. The point I made was that these regions are currently as part of the Russian federation as republics or a federated state that even participate in the Russian elections and vote for the same president, as opposed to being a separate country voting for their own president. This means although they may resemble a buffer zone but they are not exactly one.
A buffer zone for Russia is something like Belarus.