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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1335364

Oh hey, we're back to where it all begun. Only took a couple million displaced.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

with a level of federalization to protect it from future lapses in Ukrainian democracy.

With a puppet government, you mean.

Just like the "free" elections that they lead in an occupied territory.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, "free" as opposed to »free« Ukrainian elections.

In free, western Ukrainian elections, the ruling party simply bans opposition parties that they don't approve of and seizes their assets.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Don't change the subject with whatabouttisms tankie.

I can play that game too: Russia held elections at gunpoint in occupied territory. Do you also believe that the elections the US held in Afghanistan and Iraq were free? Or does that only apply to countries that you don't like?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm sure Russia had to hold, (at gunpoint?) the people of Donbas who had been shelled for 8 years by the Ukrainian government to get them to vote to leave Ukraine. Or the people of Crimea who had already voted to leave Ukraine before the Russian Federation even existed.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

What about deez nuts