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All those countries elect leaders who decide to keep the languages they teach. A foreign country doesn't threaten them with invasion because of school curriculu

All those countries elect leaders who decide to keep the languages they teach. A foreign country doesn't threaten them with invasion because of school curriculum. That's an INSANE argument! Sure it's a divided country. No question. You don't bomb countries for being divided. Had Putin stayed in the Dunbas area that would have been a moderate excuse. He chose to attack the entire country and assassinate the elected president. You sound like the people who tell a beaten wife that she shouldn't have talked back... Putin is a criminal and you're making excuses for him. He tried to take Ukraine in the gentle way by installing a puppet. When that didn't work he's trying force. Ukraine was distancing itself from Russia because of Putins policies. You're picking small things to justify terrible HUGE things. If someone says something bad to you on the street shooting their head off would be justifiable? That's the level of excuses I'm reading here.

thriftwy 4y ago
> You sound like the people who tell a beaten wife that she shouldn't have talked back... Crimea is the beaten wife. Ukraine is the psycho husband. Russia thinks it has to enforce the restraining order. You are the person who thinks criminal law has no place to be in a family, including a dysfunctional one. > assassinate the elected president Wat
- invalidname 4y ago
  Putin organized troops that were supposed to storm the capital on the first days of the war to kill Zelensky. If your insane narrative was the case then why did Putin lie about invading? Why are Ukrainians fighting against Russia and so few are fighting with it? There are Ukrainians who want Russian rule. That is obvious. But they are a tiny minority and elections proved it. Most of those who are interested in a Ukraine that is closer to Russia are fighting against it right now.
  - thriftwy 4y ago
    > they are a tiny minority and elections proved it. This can only be true if you discount people from territories Ukraine does not control but still claims.
wikitopian 4y ago
I feel like ethnic cleansing of minority populations through systemic erasure of their heritage and identity is a fine pretext for war.
- invalidname 4y ago
  As a member of a minority that went through ethnic cleansing this is remarkably offensive and ignorant.

thriftwy 4y ago

> You sound like the people who tell a beaten wife that she shouldn't have talked back... Crimea is the beaten wife. Ukraine is the psycho husband. Russia thinks it has to enforce the restraining order. You are the person who thinks criminal law has no place to be in a family, including a dysfunctional one. > assassinate the elected president Wat

invalidname 4y ago
Putin organized troops that were supposed to storm the capital on the first days of the war to kill Zelensky. If your insane narrative was the case then why did Putin lie about invading? Why are Ukrainians fighting against Russia and so few are fighting with it? There are Ukrainians who want Russian rule. That is obvious. But they are a tiny minority and elections proved it. Most of those who are interested in a Ukraine that is closer to Russia are fighting against it right now.
- thriftwy 4y ago
  > they are a tiny minority and elections proved it. This can only be true if you discount people from territories Ukraine does not control but still claims.

wikitopian 4y ago

I feel like ethnic cleansing of minority populations through systemic erasure of their heritage and identity is a fine pretext for war.

invalidname 4y ago
As a member of a minority that went through ethnic cleansing this is remarkably offensive and ignorant.