• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    The ethnic Russians whose oppression Putin used in his justification for invading Ukraine were not Russian citizens, they were Ukrainian citizens whose families had lived in those areas for generations. They weren’t settlers sent to provoke a response, they were legitimate residents of those areas.

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      Yeah that was the same thing with that the Germans in sudentland that were his cause.