• filoria@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Taiwan doesn’t want to be Chinese, so it isn’t. Crimea wants to be Russian, so it shouldn’t be?

      I get the sense that the only thing people like you want is to separate countries on some vague idea of ethnic lines and Balkanize countries because racism has been such a big part of your identity.

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        4 months ago

        Just to be clear, Taiwan IS NOT ethnically distinct from mainland China while Ukraine IS ethnically distinct from Russia.

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    4 months ago

    And then will proceed to do nothing. We’ll actually maybe not nothing, maybe the oligarchs will buy some more houses in Florida

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      Poor Russians get the front lines, rich Russians get a new vacation home… why did they get rid of the Tzar again?