• @[email protected]OP
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      141 year ago

      Well it did take 10 years for them to backpedal in Afghanistan… I hope here it happens sooner.

          • @[email protected]OP
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            21 year ago

            Whether they consider themselves Russian is a slippery slope of an argument --and not only because I doubt you have trustworthy sources to back this claim. There are many regions in the world where minorities or even significant local majorities consider themselves separate nations.

            If your argument that political power grows from the barrel of the gun is to be followed, then there’s no problem with Ukraine using said power to take over Crimea, should they have that capability. That kind of follows from your own logic.

          • @[email protected]
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            01 year ago

            Yeah, exactly. Those who didn’t consider themselves Russians have been purged long ago, forcibly deported and driven out from their lands since the early Soviet times.

            Tatars and Ukrainians have been targets of ethnic cleansing since a long time in Crimea, and therefore Russia should be granted the land as a prize. Just like with Koenigsberg Kaliningrad, it’s very easy, if you kill and deport everyone in an area, then that area is yours.

  • @Rando
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    41 year ago

    My god, is lemmy infiltrated with Russian sympathizers worse than other platforms?

    • gaytswiftfan
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      01 year ago

      yes!!! they’re everywhere and anytime I see someone bring it up someone comments some shit about having an open mind… uhhh no???

    • @[email protected]
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      -11 year ago

      A common pattern among Reddit alternatives has been that their initial population has been some particular group that has been driven out of polite company for some reason. Voat had the Incels and Trump supporters, for example. Lemmy happens to have been started by authoritarian fans. The difference is that Lemmy is open and finally the “normal” Redditors are coming. So I expect them to flood out the niche folk soon enough.

  • @[email protected]
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    01 year ago

    Well a good offense is a good defense. I’m not surprised that this is happening at all and I don’t think anyone should be.

    Had there been a time in history where the world sided with aggressor?

  • @[email protected]
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    -101 year ago

    It began many days ago but he doesn’t want to admit because they were losing so far.

    He only admitted it now because they started winning.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Why would he have announed the counteroffensive? It would only have helped the Russians. He’s declaring it now because it is obvious. And because the offensive is making gains as you say.

    • @YellowtoOrange
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      11 year ago

      Because you expect them to tell the world and rhte russians when they are attacking?