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By abandoning neutrality, Ukraine essentially violated the basis for its independence. (web.archive.org)

submitted 9 months ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/europe@lemmygrad.ml

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According to Section IX of Ukraine’s 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty:

The Ukrainian SSR solemnly declares its intention of becoming a permanently neutral state that does not participate in military blocs and adheres to three nuclear free principles: to accept, to produce and to purchase no nuclear weapons.

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[–] NikkiB@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Radio silence for me too. I don't want to take the credit, but I think it might've been me who chased them off. I pointed out the obvious, that Ukraine had been shelling the Donbass for eight years prior to Russia's "aggression," and they had this truly galaxy-brained take. In case you didn't see it...

"Oh, you're saying that if a country bombs itself they should be invaded? Well what about American mass shootings?? I guess Canada should invade us over Sandy Hook, etc., right tankie?"

And upon my clowning on him for likening mass shootings by private citizens to sanctioned bombardment by a conventional military force, he conveniently disappeared. Maybe he realized how idiotic that was and ghosted to save face. But given his prior behavior, I'm not sure he's even capable of that.

[–] taiphlosion@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 months ago

I'm just surprised considering he was after just about anyone who would respond lol.

Honestly that seemed like a troll response cause it didn't even address the point, which was "the conflict goes back to 2014", but I'm sure that he was trying to save face by constructing that strawman. 🤷🏿‍♂️