Ukraines fascist govt is doing a great job killing its own people and destroying its own country. Don't tell me they are defending their territory. If that were true they should attack Crimea where Russia DEFINITELY is. Instead they are attacking Russian ethnics and destroying eastern Ukraine instead of seeking a political solution.
Bring back the cold war, please.
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Ukraines fascist govt is doing a great job killing its own people and destroying its own country. Don't tell me they are defending their territory. If that were true they should attack Crimea where Russia DEFINITELY is. Instead they are attacking Russian ethnics and destroying eastern Ukraine instead of seeking a political solution.
No matter how bad it is, it isn't a reason for a Russian invasion.
p.s. You don't see any problems with Lebanon keeping generations stateless. Whoops, hypocrisy.
Based on polls I've seen, they don't want to be Israeli but you want to force them to become so.
Of course multiple Israeli peace offers included the option of some refugees and their descendants moving to Israel and the rest being funded to either stay in the country of their birth or move to a Palestinian state.
Yes, they were part of the organized Soviet Russification of Eastern Europe. But for some reason that doesn't bother you.
Re hashing a dead horse. We "debated" this umpteen times in 2014 and 2015. Nice to know you're still there.
Do the Russians in Latvia consider themselves Russians or Latvians or both? What is their citizenship?
Man, that sucks. Guess they can't vote either.
Do the Russians in East Ukraine consider themselves Russians or Ukrainian or both?
This is not that uncommon. My Romanian friend tells me that gypsies in Romania don't consider themselves Romanians.
When I tell people I'm Canadian. They ask: "but what are you really"? I tell them I am Sikh. They ask: "where is your turban"? I said I am Canadian Sikh.
(Not all Sikhs are East Indian.) I think all or almost all Sikhs will say they are Sikhs. Have you ever heard a Sikh say he/she is East Indian?
That is also true in Northern Ireland until most recently (at least in law if not practice).
Interesting. I think many (most, almost all, all?) Sikhs want independence from India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement
P.S. The media in Canada usually if not always refer to the 4 cabinet ministers in PM Trudeau's cabinet as Sikhs.
You once again show your ignorance of actual history. The Soviets had an official policy of replacing ethnic groups with Russians. For example that is what also happened in Crimea where they deported the ethnic Tatars and replaced them with Russians. It happened in Kaliningrad where the forcibly removed all the Germans and replaced them with Russians. Ethnic culture in the Baltic wasn't seen to be as different so they only repressed them and brought in Russian colonists but didn't deport all of the ethnic groups. Latvian policy is recent and just swinging the hate the other direction.
The Sikhs consider themselves a unique ethnic group. They have their own religion, own distinct historical background, and unique culture.
The Brits really fcuked up when they didn't give the Sikhs their own homeland after all the Sikhs did for the Brits.
The Brits and the French also really fcuked up when they didn't give the Kurds their own homeland.
The result is that 5 Sikh organizations and at least one Kurd organization are consider terrorist groups. People turn to "terrorism" when they are denied their independent homeland.
Let the people decide in a peaceful vote. That is the decent and democratic way. The good people of Quebec, Scotland and most recently Northern Ireland have the right to self-determination. I think the Russians in East Ukraine and the Kurds should also have the same right.
BTW: I think the Sikhs and Kurds were promised their own homeland. A promise not fulfilled, yet.
Punjab itself was partitioned. Muslims got part and the part that was supposed to go to the Sikhs did not. A Sikh state would work as long as minority rights are respected.
An article worth reading: http://observer.com/2016/10/putins-activation-of-iskander-m-ballistic-missile-is-a-message-to-obama/
You obviously are ignorant of what defines an ethnic group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_group
BTW Palestinians have the exact same genes, religion, and language as people in all of the surrounding Arab states. Are you now saying they don't constitute an ethnic group?
The last major Russian land invasion of Finland was in 1939 and the Finns almost gave the Ruskies more than they could handle.
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