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How do you square your belief in democracy with your belief that 90% of Crimeans who want the referendum result respected should be totally ignored? (90% was a
by pydry 5y ago
How do you square your belief in democracy with your belief that 90% of Crimeans who want the referendum result respected should be totally ignored?
(90% was also the result of a German run poll 2 years later without tanks present... the poll was consistent with the referendum)
It's worth bearing in mind that Kyiv has no intention of rerunning the poll if Russia leaves likely coz they know what the result would be. It will simply reincorporate the territory. The only vote that was ever going to happen after Maidan was with Russian tanks present.
I dont think this is about agreeing to disagree or about accepting imperfections in democracy. This is about an overarching willingness of our society to discard democracy when it conflicts with western imperialist objectives.
Not only are we willing to do it we are willing to engage in orwellian doublethink about it.