• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    You know that’s not actually how any of this works, right? If anyone in those regions wants to become a Russian citizen, they have every right to apply for immigration and move there…but they don’t get to take the land with them.

    Especially not at gunpoint, with the backing of a foreign invasion force.

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      1 day ago

      The people living on a land, who were born on that land and whose ancestors worked to build up that land, have a right to their land and the right to stay on their land and the right to secede along with their land from a government that no longer represents them, wants to erase their history, forbid their language, separate them from their closest relatives, and force them to worship Nazis.

      Why should the people of the Donbass voluntarily ethnically cleanse themselves from their ancestral land just so that Nazis from Western Ukraine can claim it? You sound like a Zionist.

      To the people of the Donbass the real foreign invasion force is the one that came at gunpoint in 2014 from Kiev and started shelling them.

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      2 days ago

      you mean how the us has been bullying russia and backed a coup in ukraine to make it happen?

      yeah, something like that.

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      Actually as the people who live on that land they do get a greater say in what happens to it