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  1.  @alimohammad1934  Georgia favors Azerbaijan entirely because Armenia is allied with Russia.
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  2. Given that China's state-owned oil company has a 25% stake in the consortium that's extracting the the Guyanese oil, even Venezuela's own usual allies would oppose them in this.
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  3.  @openmoviearchives7381  DC has over 200 years of unique history separate from Maryland. And has a larger economy than most states. It's also unconstitutional to alter a state's borders without approval of that state's legislature, and Maryland flatly rejects being "given" DC. Presumably because if DC were returned ot Maryland, that city with 200 years of separate history from Maryland would become the largest part of Maryland (displacing Baltimore as the largest city). You're going to be hard-pressed to convince any state that they should absorb a city where none of the residents have any ties to the state nor want to have any ties to the state, yet those same residents would instantly become the dominant political faction within the state due to their sheer numbers. It would be like if the "compromise" to give Puerto Ricans representation in Congress without making PR a state was offered, of instead attaching PR to Florida. Florida would never go for that either.
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  4.  @dboyzer1  Crimea was most certainly not "always" part of Russia. Crimea was first conquered by Russia in 1783. Meaning that Crimea was part of Russia for 171 years. Given that Russia has existed for 477 years (or 761 years if you count the Principality of Moscow that preceded it), it's downright absurd to claim that Crimea was always part of Russia. And Ukraine was never going to "give" Crimea to anyone.
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  5.  @dboyzer1  Completely wrong, Dmitri. It's Russia and only Russia that violated the Budapest Memorandum. Minsk 1&2 were illegitimate "agreements" that Russia imposed at gunpoint on Ukraine. And there never was an "Istanbul Agreement".
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  6.  @dboyzer1  And by "do the right thing" you mean "submit to domination by Russia". It's Russia that refused to abide by any of the agreements they've signed.
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  7. Russia has always felt like it's entitled to dominate all their neighbors. It's what their culture is all about.
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  8.  @dboyzer1  Which was a direct result of Russia invading Ukraine and annexing 10% of their territory. You're (deliberately) reversing the cause and effect here.
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  9.  @dboyzer1  Ukraine was neutral in 2014. How did that work out for them? Neutrality can't work when you're bordered by an expansionist empire, and your border consists of wide open plains that said empire can easily storm across at any time. In that case, "neutrality" simply means that nobody will come to your aid when the empire invades you.
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  10. There's nothing to say that law has to remain in place. It's a really stupid law, too. It should be repealed, and the size of the House of Representatives significantly increased.
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  11.  @AnatolyBerezkin  Try 1,142 years.
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  12.  @poet7158  No, changing the size of the House of Representatives would not require an amendment. Just an act of Congress. Since that's how the current size of 435 was set.
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  13.  @arseniy_viktorovich  So Finland should be thanking Russia for a century of brutalization and forced Russification? It was Russia that tried to wipe out the Finnish language and culture. Sweden never did that. And would Finland still be part of Sweden if not for the Russian conquest? Given that Norway also used to be part of Sweden and was allowed to peacefully become independent in 1905, almost certainly yet.
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  14.  @shirazzmataz  Only one referendum has been held, ever. And the situation in the UK has massively changed since that referendum. Boris Johnson pulling out of his ass that it's supposed to be "once in a generation" is not a valid reason to not allow another referendum. This argument would be like if the Tories wanted to cancel Britain's elections forever, saying "seems weird that election after election is expected to be held until Labour wins".
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  15.  @sebaschan-uwu  The current House of Representatives is comically small for a nation of over 330 million.
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  16.  @TheMasterPlumber  "Russian interests" meaning Russia's desire to dominate Eastern Europe. Russia feels like they're entitled to have a "sphere of interest" in Eastern Europe, and that the nations of Eastern Europe shouldn't get any say in the matter. Russia needs to be taught that it's none of their business what alliances other nations join.
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  17.  @haroldhausman1672  My statement is completely true. Russia has always been aggressively expansionist. How do you think they got to be so big?
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  18.  @haroldhausman1672  Russia was aggressively expansionist before communism, and it's still aggressively expansionist now after communism. It wasn't the economic system that made the USSR expansionist, it was the long-standing Russian affinity for autocracy.
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  19.  @haroldhausman1672  Russia's history includes 761 years of expansion via military conquest. Surely you don't think Russia always stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Bering Strait, do you? You can disagree with me all you like, but I'm still right. Russia has a very long history of doing the same thing it's doing right now in Ukraine.
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  20.  @haroldhausman1672  You're simply denying well-documented history. Russia's expansion was not peaceful.
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  21. @imjoeim Yes, the Estonian government that had to flee to avoid being executed by the Soviets when Estonia was conquered.
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  22. The new capital in Kalimantan shouldn't cause any issues to the rain forest, since it'll be built along the coast.
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  23.  @worlds3061  West Papua literally never wanted to be part of Indonesia, so it's not a remotely similar situation.
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  24. Apparently unaware that China is literally occupying significant swaths of Indian territory right now.
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  25.  @TheMasterPlumber  And I'm saying that it's actually Russia that chose not to develop positive relations with the West. The West actually bent over backwards to be conciliatory toward Russia, and it was very difficult for the Eastern European nations to convince the West (and particularly the United States) to let them join NATO. As this video pointed out, Poland literally threatened to acquire nuclear weapons unless they were allowed to join NATO. That's how desperate they were to get into NATO. It wasn't until 1999 that anyone (specifically, Poland, Czechia, and Hungary) were able to convince the US to let them join. Prior to that, the US attitude was almost to treat Russia as if it was the only nation in Eastern Europe.
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  26.  @therealtaco7328  I would say that's probably a significant overestimate of Quebec's likelihood (given the steadily declining desire for independence among the Québécois), and a bit of an underestimate for South Yemen (given that the entirety of Yemen is such an ungovernable basket case that it's probably going to disintegrate one way or another).
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  27.  @wkgurr  Russia talks about wanting Ukraine to be "neutral", but what they've always meant by that is "submissive". Russia thinks that they're entitled to dominate their neighbors. Switzerland chose its neutrality. Every nation is entitled to make such a choice. "Neutrality" that's imposed from the outside is simply domination by more powerful neighbors.
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  28.  @RogueSecret  There was no "state coup" in Ukraine, nor was the Russian language ever banned. The fact that you have to lie your ass off like that shows that you know there's no valid justification for Russia's invasion.
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  29. There's no reason that every nation's work week has to be Monday through Friday, though.
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  30. I doubt many people in Colorado see the difference as a bad thing either.
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  31.  @manuelbst8579  That's Argentina's assertion regarding the Falkland Islands. The historical accuracy of that claim is questionable, since it leaves out that the British were the first to discover and claim the islands (in 1690), when they were completely uninhabited. (Since as far as anybody knows, there was never an indigenous population.) Britain first settled the islands in 1765, and temporarily left in 1771 due to economic reasons while continuing to assert their ownership. The islands were illegally occupied by Spain from 1767 to 1811, and then uninhabited until 1829. As such, Argentina's claim is derived from the previous illegal claim by Spain to already-claimed territory which Britain had never relinquished ownership of. The Argentine claim to South Georgia, on the other hand, was first asserted in 1927, and it was on the basis of...absolutely nothing. There had never been any Argentine presence on South Georgia, nor had South Georgia ever been under the administration of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Argentina seems to have claimed it solely because it's British, and Argentina didn't want Britain to have any territory in the South Atlantic.
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  32.  @honor9lite1337  The Indonesian government (ie the colonizers) are the entire reason West Papua independence isn't going to happen.
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  33.  @user-tr1zj  "Disputed" in that China thinks that past border agreements aren't binding if China wants the land on the other side of the border.
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  34.  @wkgurr  Switzerland has been able to survive as a neutral nation is that their terrain has historically made them extremely difficult to invade. And since 1945, their immediate neighbors are no longer in the business of expansion via conquest. Neither of these factors applied to Ukraine, which has wide-open borders with the aggressively expansionist Russia.
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  35.  @dboyzer1  Being "neutral" is what made it possible for Russia to invade Ukraine. You're willfully ignoring the fact that Ukraine was neutral in 2014 when Russia invaded them. For a nation that borders Russia to be "neutral" actually means they're dominated by Russia.
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  36. That's the majority of Russian technology in general.
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  37.  @pmack217  No, Russia did not ever apply of NATO membership. Nor was there ever any agreement to end NATO or to "not expand East". And Russia uses depleted uranium as their standard tank ammunition.
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  38. For Turkey to "be able to explain that it has no aggressive behavior towards any country and does not want to fight with anyone, that it only wants to live in peace within its own borders", they'd need to pull their troops out Cyprus.
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  39.  @pmack217  No, your claims are most certainly not facts. Countries like Georgia and Ukraine were conquered by Russia. And there was never any "ethnic Russian genocide".
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  40.  @Flavas  Modern-day independent Moldova is approximately half of the historical Moldovia. The other half (Western Moldavia, or in your language Moldova Occidentală) is still part of Romania. That half of Moldavians seem to be quite happy as part of Romania. Moldavia didn't get erased when it unified with Wallachia and Transylvania the first time, it simply became one of the three constituent regions of a larger country. (I'm aware that "Moldavia" called itself Moldova. I'm using that name because it's easier to differentiate because the historic principality and the modern republic that way.) And from a purely pragmatic view, it seems like reunifying with Romania would be the best way for Moldova to be protected against future Russian aggression. Your country is almost certainly Russia's next target if they achieve victory over Ukraine.
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  41. "Balance" is not the same thing as accuracy. Retrocession of the southern portion of DC to Virginia really was all about slavery.
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  42.  @NamemaNSl  NATO nations are almost never attacked because the existence of NATO makes it suicidal to attack them. That's the entire reason that nations join NATO.
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  43.  @nikitashulmin1883  Should I remind you that the Soviet Union invaded Finland without provocation on November 30, 1939? (No, the shelling of the border village of Mainila was not provocation. Because that was carried out by the NKVD as a false flag operation. The Soviets shelled their own village in order to blame Finland and have a flimsy pretext for invading.) And no, NATO did not start wars against Yugoslavia, Libya, and Iraq. NATO had no involvement whatsoever in either of the wars in Iraq. Yugoslavia ceased to exist as of April 27, 1992, and NATO's war against Serbia was to defend Croatia and Bosnia from genocidal Serbian aggression. And NATO (along with the Arab League) participated in the no-fly zone over Libya to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1973.
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  44.  @evanjohnson1299  There's nothing in the Constitution suggesting such a thing.
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  45. If democracy were ever established in China, cities like Beijing and Shanghai would absolutely end up being provinces (or the equivalent) in their own right. Just like how in Japan, Tokyo is a prefecture in its own right. And in Germany, they have Berlin, Hamburg, and Bremen as states in their own right.
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  46.  @maxim7781  What Finland did during WW2 was get invaded without provocation by the Soviet Union.
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  47. Yep, but Desert Ceausescu "needs" his giant palace.
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  48.  @senoritaincognito1140  Naturally, the rich ruling class would prefer physically separating themselves form the people of Cairo instead of doing anything to make Cairo residents' lives better.
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  49.  @oskarkarlsson4142  Russia was not "rejected", they were told that they'd have to apply for membership like everyone else. Putin found that deeply offensive. He said that Russia shouldn't have to wait in line behind "countries that don't matter", that NATO should just automatically give Russia membership because Russia is just so important.
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  50.  @jujirer  No, the USSR condemned all of Poland's Jews, by making it impossible for Poland to defeat the German invaders. Without the USSR invading as well, the German invasion of Poland might well have failed. Germany and the USSR had agreed in advance to invade Poland together and split its territory down the middle. Which is thoroughly unsurprising, since Prussia and Russia had a long history of imposing "partitions of Poland".
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