• Dogyote@slrpnk.net
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    8 months ago

    Well yeah, it’s up to them, but I don’t think they’re monolithic. They’ll eventually negotiate once they run out of men or weapons. I don’t think they’d be slaves if Russia captured Kyiv either. Perhaps without political rights, but that wasn’t much different than before.

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      8 months ago

      I think that’s exactly the point - they know how it was before, and they know how it can be by looking in neighboring EU.

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          8 months ago

          “Give me liberty or give me death”

          — Patric Henry

          “There are very few things worth dying for, liberty for yourself and for your loved ones is one of them”

          — MxM111

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              8 months ago

              That depends where you live, what your cultural upbringing is. If you are from Russia, sure. There, it is a myth, and democracy is something to scare people by.