Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "Chinese ambassador sparks European outrage over comments" video.

  1. Of course you sign documents to get married or divorced. And what does primary health care have to do with the fact Ukraine and Taiwan are sovereign nations, no matter how badly their ill mannered, corrupt neighbors want to deny that fact?
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  2. An ambassador's job is to rely the political stances of their home countries, to foreign countries. The same is not true of random politicians. Bernie Sanders often said that the USSR was superior to the US, and saw no problems with communist dictators brutally suppressing unrest with genocide and reeducation camps. Yet, at no time were those attitudes ever a part of the official US position.
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  3.  @citytianyu  Your wrote "the countries actually didn't really nagotiate" <sic>. The error is spelling is yours, as well as the error in history. Crimea was a part of Ukraine before Russia grabbed that country, and forced it into the Russian empire. There could have been no negotiation that would have resulted in it being ceded to Russia.
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  4. The European Union is a true union of countries, as no country was ever forced to join. The USSR is just a continuation of the Russian Empire, in which conquered countries were made vassals against their will, to which Nazi controlled countries, "liberated" against their will were added. Thus, the USSR was a confederation of states, that did not want to be in that confederation, not a free union, as the EU is.
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  5. "A sovereign state is a political community that has complete independence and is not subject to the government of a larger entity. Its members are bound together by a common subjection to a central authority, which they must obey." Note, there is nothing in that definition that says a sovereign country may not make alliances.
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  6.  @dylanvogler2165  The Russian Federation is to the USSR or Russian Empire, what Turkey is to the Ottoman Empire. Both are what remains when all the vassal states, that never wanted to be conquered, are freed from the conqueror.
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