• mim@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Don’t change the subject with whatabouttisms tankie.

    I can play that game too: Russia held elections at gunpoint in occupied territory. Do you also believe that the elections the US held in Afghanistan and Iraq were free? Or does that only apply to countries that you don’t like?

    • Staines [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      I’m sure Russia had to hold, (at gunpoint?) the people of Donbas who had been shelled for 8 years by the Ukrainian government to get them to vote to leave Ukraine. Or the people of Crimea who had already voted to leave Ukraine before the Russian Federation even existed.