• aleph@lemm.ee
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    So you’re saying that Russia didn’t invade Ukraine first, before the separatist-controlled areas were shelled?

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      Correct. The US launched a coup in 2013, hand-picked officials for the new Ukrainian government (president of which was a candy mogul), the US-backed government started oppressing the native Russian-speaking populations (with help from Azov, Right Sector, etc.), the Russian-speaking populations rose up, a ceasefire was negotiated, the Ukrainians broke said ceasefire, then Russia went in.

      This was all 2013-2014, since then Ukraine has been waging an artillery war against Donetsk and Lugansk. Despite stuff such as the Minsk Agreements.

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        Is there any specific proof of the part where Russia entered after Ukraine bombed??

        I personally don’t see it as necessary, and think an analysis of which forces/interests were pushing towards the war is more important than “who fired the first bullet” anyways. That’s always seemed like a dumb way of arguing anyways, because of how often it’s actually “he punched me first (after I held this knife right next to his throat for years).” But libs do all the time so it’d be good to be able to disprove not only on my terms but theirs

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        Oh, so you’re saying that Russia illegally annexing Crimea in 2014 wasn’t an invasion of Ukraine?

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          You can always tell who the most ignorant libs are when they bring up Crimea lmao

          Crimea is not Ukrainian, it has always been a distinct cultural ethnic region and 97% of Crimeans voting for independence from Kiev should give you pause before you breathlessly insist they should remain beholden to a bunch of nazi banderites

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            “Acktually sweaty, don’t you know that if a vote has a higher than 80% yes vote, it’s automatically a sham? Every vote needs to be really close or else it doesn’t count and isn’t real democracy. Consensus isn’t democratic!”

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            Crimeans wanting independence means they wanted to become part of the Russian empire again?

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              the Russian federation is a reactionary bourgeois state that is a hollowed out shell of its former USSR self, but I dislike the hyperbole that it is “the Russian Empire”. Russia Today is neither the Russian empire, nor the Soviet Union. If anything it is closer politically to what it would have been if the February revolution had continued and the October revolution never happened: A bourgeois state.

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              a russian majority region would rather not be ethnically cleansed

              they join russia

              those people are pro russian empire traitors

              yea

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          making it pretty obvious here that you have no idea who Victoria Nuland is and only started paying attention to any of this stuff in 2022

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            Assuming that it was even legitimate to begin with, which is a big if, a popular vote doesn’t automatically legitimize relinquishing territory to a foreign nation.

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              Assuming that it was even legitimate to begin with

              “Democracy is when the stupid foreigners vote how I think they should, otherwise it’s not legitimate”

              doesn’t automatically legitimize relinquishing territory to a foreign nation.

              If the people vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine, then that shows that Crimea isn’t Ukraine’s to relinquish or not. Liberals and abandoning democracy as soon as it becomes a rhetorical inconvenience for them, name a more iconic duo.

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              a “popular vote” doesn’t automatically legitimize relinquishing territory to a foreign nation.

              Good you acknowledge that even the westoid cope for the Euromaidan coup is bullshit.

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              If your aim is to prevent war, what is your solution for when the vast majority of people in one country want to join another, and vote accordingly?

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                A complicated situation certainly, but whatever the answer is, it is not “collude with a neighbouring foreign nation, allow them to invade, and provoke a military conflict.”

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          In response to Ukraine illegally replacing the president in a legislative coup.

          Let’s not pretend like the law matters, m’kay?

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          I know borders are sacred and inviolable, but Ukraine and Russia were part of the same country until fairly recently. It’s not weird that large populations of people would rather not be living under the rule of Ukrainian nationalists and decided to make some adjustments.