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  • mellowheat@suppo.fi
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    5 months ago

    What nations are allowed to have their own interests, and act to secure those interests?

    Is Ukraine allowed that?

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Legitimate national interests don't include attacking ethnic minorities, which is a major cause of the current war dating back to the early 2010s.

      There's also a question of what "national interest" means when the U.S. coups your elected government, as it did to Ukraine in 2014.

      • mellowheat@suppo.fi
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        5 months ago

        There’s also a question of what “national interest” means when the U.S. coups your elected government, as it did to Ukraine in 2014.

        Does there exist proof that it was a US coup?

        • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/russia-ukraine-war-kiev-conflict