• Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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    The “rule” is in the constitution

    It’s not. It says elections can be delayed in time of war, not that they must be. Please go read it yourself, to dispel this frequent myth.

    And regardless if it’s constitutional, not holding elections is not democratic. Because that’s what the word means.

    There was no way for Ukraine to join NATO

    That actually IS in the amended constitution. And the MAP was submitted in 2008i. https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/833852.html

    vatnik

    Do you even know what that word means?

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      Oh cool. 2008 action plan to join NATO. 2014 War with Russia started. Sure the argument could stand there.

      But riddle me this, why the invasion? The War never ended, so the argument that Ukraine can’t join NATO stands.

      I mean I completely understand why they would like to join NATO, considering how Russia Georgia war started 2008

      Vatnik is how I call Russians that support the war by their action/inaction. It’s pejorative. The true origin was a meme if I recall. Although the more I learn about Russia the more I hate the every day Russian

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        Although the more I learn about Russia the more I hate the every day Russian

        Meh, if we’re going to blame the citizens for the country, my ire goes first to the US. Who’s populous doesn’t even have the excuses of WWII and the horrors of the 90s in Russia for their embrace of monsters.

        Putin is a war criminal and should hang - but what he claims as precedents (illegal NATO unilateral bombing of Yugoslavia, illegal invasion of Iraq, etc) isn’t made up either. The West is pretty ridiculous in yelling about warmongering when George W Bush is still a respected former President making pictures after killing a million people and most Americans can’t even tell you what countries the US is bombing this week.

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          US and it’s imperialistic crimes are nothing to sneeze at. Not gonna come close to try and justify what they have done (banana wars for ex.) / are doing (terror campaign against it’s citizens for ex.)