Canada to base 450 troops in Latvia to stop Russia...

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It's a token deposit, to show Canada is involved, "we care". lol
Do you think Hair Doo has the guts to show up there for a selfie,...???

Especially if he only allowed them to be armed with selfie sticks.


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In case people missed it, the move isn't to physically stop a Russian invasion but a clear message that Canada supports Latvia as an independent state.
 

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Almost half of the latvian population are ethnic Russians that are treated like shit in Latvia. Latvian government is keeping generations of ethnic Russians stateless even though they have been living there for 4 generations. How do you expect Russians to react ?
Russia treats its own citizens even worse.
 

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Is the Nato going to launch air strikes over Moscow to stop Putin from invading other countries ?
NATO is going to put troops into democracies like Latvia to stop the Russian dictatorship from attacking them and oppressing the free people of Latvia the way Russians are oppressed by Putin.
 

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Latvia isn't a democracy because generations of ethnic Russians are kept stateless and not allowed to vote or to work in government. Latvia is an Apartheid regime.
Latvia is a democracy and the majority of Russians have Latvian citizenship. The rest are eligible for citizenship of they want it and they learn to speak Latvian.

Stop the bullshit.
 

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Elderly people cannot learn latvian easily, also the language requirement should apply only to immigrants and not to someone born there and whose family lived there for 4 generations.
Also they have to pass a biased anti-Russian citizenship test where they have to acknowledge soviet crimes. A lot of ethnic Russians wouldn't accept to be held responsible for this.
Russia probably shouldn't have illegally colonized Latvia when it was under Russian military occupation. However, the rules are straightforward: anyone can become a Latvian if they adopt the local customs and language.

Your solution: Russia should illegally invade Latvia and resume the oppression of Latvians and the illegal colonization of its territory?
 

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Russia probably shouldn't have illegally colonized Latvia when it was under Russian military occupation. However, the rules are straightforward: anyone can become a Latvian if they adopt the local customs and language.
,..."if they adopt the local customs and language",...too funny fuji,...so you agree with this,...???

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Almost half of the latvian population are ethnic Russians that are treated like shit in Latvia. Latvian government is keeping generations of ethnic Russians stateless even though they have been living there for 4 generations. How do you expect Russians to react ?
That is the exact claim that Hitler used to invade the Sudetenland and Poland.
 

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Hate to break it to you but Canada also requires people to speak adequate English or French when applying for citizenship.
But obviously not,..."adopt the local customs".

That would be asking to much.

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Have you noticed that we aren't talking about immigrants but people who are living there for 4 generations? Also FYI Canada doesn't require language knowledge for anyone born in Canada also elderly applicants who are over 64 years old are exempted form the language requirements
We are talking about people who immigrated after 1940. There's a clear path to citizenship for them that they have chosen not to follow.
 

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They didn't immigrate, they relocated to another USSR republic when it was the same country
You mean they moved there to colonize it and wipe out the local culture when it was brutally and illegally occupied by Russia.

The Russian occupation of Eastern Europe was a terrible crime.
 
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