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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

I see, so "might makes right" for you then?

I appreciate you making your sense of morality - or lack thereof - so very clear.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (10 children)

International recognition in line with the principles of customary international law as codified in the Montivedeo Convention make right, but that's not very snappy.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (9 children)

No, you said:

I would simply win the civil war instead of losing

Which indicates quite clearly that you believe military power should decide whether a nation has the right to independence. You don't get to try to deflect that ex post facto. You either admit that this is what you genuinely believe in spite of its obvious morality problem, or you admit that you were wrong to make such a statement and acknowledge that your ideas about national independence need changing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

The Chinese Nationalists thought that military power should decide that they were in charge of China, right up until the People's Liberation Army fucking bodied them and they fled to their little island with their tails between their legs (and then conducted massacres against the native population and anyone remotely leftist).

This """independence dispute""" would have been resolved seventy years ago had the US Navy not stuck their fucking imperial beak in and stopped the communists chasing down these fascist war criminals and finishing the job.

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