▲ 152 ▼ Germany is now Europe's top defence spender, says SIPRI arms data (www.euractiv.com) submitted 1 year ago by solo@slrpnk.net to c/world@lemmy.world 40 comments fedilink hide all child comments Archived link of the article
[–] galanthus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child) This is simply not correct. Quite a lot of people would prefer not to separate from Russia. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Then they wouldn't fight a war for independence would they? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] galanthus@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child) Precisely. And this is why a lot of peoples did not, in fact, fight a war of independence against Russia. And the Chechens, for instance, wanted independence because they were subjected to a genocide by the USSR when it was ruled by a Georgian, so this is hardly a usual case for the ethnic minorities, since most of them were not genocided. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) The main reason the rest don't fight is because they were already too badly genocided. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] galanthus@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Exactly. In fact, my nation was genocided so hard by the Russians, we don't even know it happened. The point is, that there is not necessarily a desire to leave. You are generalising unnecessarily. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Then they wouldn't fight a war for independence would they? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] galanthus@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child) Precisely. And this is why a lot of peoples did not, in fact, fight a war of independence against Russia. And the Chechens, for instance, wanted independence because they were subjected to a genocide by the USSR when it was ruled by a Georgian, so this is hardly a usual case for the ethnic minorities, since most of them were not genocided. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) The main reason the rest don't fight is because they were already too badly genocided. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] galanthus@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Exactly. In fact, my nation was genocided so hard by the Russians, we don't even know it happened. The point is, that there is not necessarily a desire to leave. You are generalising unnecessarily. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] galanthus@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child) Precisely. And this is why a lot of peoples did not, in fact, fight a war of independence against Russia. And the Chechens, for instance, wanted independence because they were subjected to a genocide by the USSR when it was ruled by a Georgian, so this is hardly a usual case for the ethnic minorities, since most of them were not genocided. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) The main reason the rest don't fight is because they were already too badly genocided. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] galanthus@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Exactly. In fact, my nation was genocided so hard by the Russians, we don't even know it happened. The point is, that there is not necessarily a desire to leave. You are generalising unnecessarily. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) The main reason the rest don't fight is because they were already too badly genocided. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] galanthus@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Exactly. In fact, my nation was genocided so hard by the Russians, we don't even know it happened. The point is, that there is not necessarily a desire to leave. You are generalising unnecessarily. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] galanthus@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Exactly. In fact, my nation was genocided so hard by the Russians, we don't even know it happened. The point is, that there is not necessarily a desire to leave. You are generalising unnecessarily. permalink fedilink source parent