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Nah, I prefer to stop countries from annexing pieces of other countries.
The US hasn't annexed anything since 1959, and I was born too late to stop that. But Russia can't help itself, and even gives youngsters a chance to oppose annexation.
Maybe you should figure out how to stop your own regime from invading countries before playing world police then. US is literally occupying part of Syria as we speak. Just how ignorant are you exactly?
There are far more Russian troops in Syria. I choose the lesser evil.
The legitimate government of Syria invited Russia to help it defend itself against the US regime, but do go on.
And how much Syrian land has been annexed to the US?
Around a third of a country including major food and oil producing regions. Are you in a cave where google isn't available?
Huh, I didn't realize that we had a 51st state. Who is the new governor?
Wait, I just looked at a map. It turns out the US borders haven't changed. Are in you in a cave where the definition of "annexation" is unavailable?
Oh I'm sorry, your shithole country is only occupying Syria without having officially incorporated the regions you're pillaging. That makes it totally different. 🤡
Yes, it does. It means that the US is among the countries that gave up using force to alter its boundaries, whereas Russia is not among them.
That's right, instead US just comes and occupies countries whenever it feels like. Totally different though. 🤡
Many countries, including Russia, just come and occupy countries whenever they feel like.
Actual annexation is what makes Russia the greater evil.
Nah, the country that massacred over 6 million people with its war on terror is the actual greater evil, and the reason US does mass murder around the globe is because of people like you https://bylinetimes.com/2021/09/15/up-to-six-million-people-the-unrecorded-fatalities-of-the-war-on-terror/
Russia has far more blood on its hands than the US, starting with almost 6 million in Ukraine alone.
That is objectively false, but you keep on doing you.
You're right, it's up to 7 million dead in the Holodomor.
Perhaps, educate yourself on what actual historians have to say on the subject.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2500600
During the 1932 Holodomor Famine, the USSR sent aid to affected regions in an attempt to alleviate the famine. According to Mark Tauger in his article, The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933:
Some bring up massive grain exports during the famine to show that the Soviet Union exported food while Ukraine starved. This is fallacious for a number of reasons, but most importantly of all the amount of aid that was sent to Ukraine alone actually exceeded the amount that was exported at the time.
According to Tauger, the reason why more aid was not provided was because of the low harvest
Tauger is not a communist, and ultimately this specific article takes the view that the low harvest was caused by collectivization (he factors in the natural causes of the famine in later articles, based on how he completely neglects to mention weather in this article at all its clear that his position shifted over the years). However, the fact is that the Soviets really did try to alleviate the famine as best as they could.
On the other hand, we can look at what an actual intentional genocide looks like where Europeans massacred so many indigenous people in North America that it changed the climate!
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article225350745.html
Not to mention such hits as the Irish and Bengal famines.