• aleph@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    So you’re saying that Russia didn’t invade Ukraine first, before the separatist-controlled areas were shelled?

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        1 year ago

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

        • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.net
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          1 year ago

          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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            1 year ago

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

            • Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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              1 year ago

              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.