Pretty gross. Comments every bit as awful as you're thinking. Just a reminder of the abysmal state of non-cishet rights and acceptance in Russia.
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T1: Putin on accusations against Russia in the energy crisis: "European countries are big specialists in non-traditional relationships and themselves abandoned traditional energy sources in favor of non-traditional ones"
T2: ("non-traditional relationships" is the legal term in Russia for all things "LGBT")
Of course they're not the same. Theres a meaningful difference between a civil war where one side is
moderate liberalsfundamentalist jihadist militias who will execute you for wearing the wrong color hijab in their neighborhood and a brutal minoritarian dictatorship who will shock your testicles until you admit to crimes against the regime for opposing them but are otherwise secular; and a war of aggression launched because the aggressive party feels threatened and wants to keep their sphere of influence (and capitalist plunder) secure from a superior competing camp.Yeah, there's context in between both of those, but at the end of the day that's what this is.
Not even remotely reasonable analysis tbh. How do you feel about the DPR and LPR declaring indepence from the Ukraine after the US backed coup led to Nazis persecuting the Russian minority in the country? Since that's how this conflict started...
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How do you analyze the credibility of the threat? Were they actually trying to protect a "sphere of influence" or protect their own security from an existential threat like, say, a rapidly militarizing state on their border run by Nazis and literally artillery shelling along their own borders?
Square me the circle of why the DNR and LNR secessions are legitimate while those in Dixie, Chechnya, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Hong Kong are not.
Any secession attempt brings into conflict certain ideals like that of self determination against that of national sovereignty. Some are obviously more legitimate than others, it depends upon the reasons for seceeding and how the people living in the affected area feel about it, I don't see how that is even controversial, but I asked specifically how you feel about the DPR and LPR declaring indepence and holding territory over the last 8 years so I can better understand how you've come to the conclusion that Russia getting involved in that armed conflict constitutes imperialism and a "war of aggression".
Taiwan isn't a secession. They literally claim the mainland, Mongolia and other parts as theirs. China freed Tibet from feudalism. HK was colonized by the British.
Right I didn't get into each specific case he mentioned because he hasn't yet explained his thoughts on DPR/LPR which is what we were talking about but Hong Kong LOL nobody there even wants to break away from China, that's just completely misinterpreting the protests. Also Dixie "why is a bunch of slave owners trying to leave the country that looks headed to ban slavery less legitimate than people seceeding to not be murdered by Nazis hmm? Riddle me that ". This is the sort of thinking that idealism and refusing a principled anti-imperialist line leads to.