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You might want to delete the "and the citizenry did nothing wrong" ending to your otherwise reasonable post. I don't think you meant it the way it sounds.
by da39a3ee 6y ago
You might want to delete the "and the citizenry did nothing wrong" ending to your otherwise reasonable post. I don't think you meant it the way it sounds.
- jrochkind1 6y agoI legit am not sure how it sounded to you in a way that seemed unfortunate.
- da39a3ee 6y agoIt implies that, unlike Crimea, the citizenry of countries _other_ than Crimea (Iran/Sudan/Cuba etc) _did_ do something wrong.
- jrochkind1 6y agoAh, I see. I mean, yeah, I think that kind of is the theory behind US sanctions sometimes honestly. It's pretty messed up. (And the US, which is a "democracy", would want to avoid looking in the mirror too).
- bigbubba 6y agoWhat do you think the citizenry of Crimea did wrong?
- trhway 6y agothey voted wrong way.
- bigbubba 6y agoI'm under the impression that nobody but Russian state media claims that election was legitimate.
- trhway 6y agowrong way in wrong elections :) Of course, like any Russian election it was just a formality, a décor. Nobody really needed it as the will of the people was clear - no more threats of more of those "trains of friendships" full of Western Ukrainian nationalists, especially given all the quiet massive arming of those nationalists that had happened under the cover of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the run up to the 2014.
- kdmytro 6y agoWhat massive arming?
- f6v 6y agoAh yes, the legitimacy. I don't think it means what it's implied to mean. The USA do many illegitimate things and no-one bats an eye.
- da39a3ee 6y agoNothing; see my reply elsewhere in this thread. I meant the opposite of what you understood me to mean, but I can see why I was misunderstood.
- da39a3ee 6y agoI am being misunderstood because of the wording I used. The reason "and the citizenry did nothing wrong" is problematic is because it implies that, unlike Crimea, the citizenry of countries _other_ than Crimea (Iran/Sudan/Cuba etc) _did_ do something wrong. I was not saying that the citizens of Crimea did something wrong: I was saying the opposite.
- hevelvarik 6y agoIt was obvious and you are dealing with pedants