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Everyone talks about the lack of civics knowledge among some in the US but maybe geography should also be taught again? This dolt didn't realize or understand that Canada is a separate country.

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A follow up regarding Ukraine, this is the percentage of Ukrainians in each region that voted AGAINST independence from the USSR in 1991 (The red is Crimea; the map legend is a little manipulative, but it does illustrate a point)

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The Moscow Bureau Chief of the Financial times just posted a very long thread detailing Putin's speech to his nation and signing decrees annexing two parts of Ukraine. It's long. I tried to use the thread reader app but I don't think this author allows it.











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Good God.

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Unless he teleported from one place to the signing hall the speech was recorded earlier. I'm sure someone will find the metadata of the speech.

Also by doing this Seddon lets us avoid the FT paywall.

This is really what Twitter is good for. It's not that hard to avoid the loonies and navel gazers.

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I guess this is the TL;dr

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Vladimir Poetin heeft dus een 'Hitlertje' gedaan. Net als destijds het geval was met het Sudetenland (Tsjechoslowakije) en de 'Anschluss' van Oostenrijk doet hij aanspraak op grondgebied van een buurland gebaseerd op etniciteit en taal (plus geloof vwb de Donbass)

Translated from Dutch by Google
Vladimir Putin has done a 'little Hitler'. As was the case with the Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) and the 'Anschluss' of Austria at the time, he claims territory of a neighboring country based on ethnicity and language (plus religion regarding the Donbass)

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