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Old 03-02-2014, 01:37 AM   #288
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Neither. It's +8 celsius in Sevastopol now and while I do not support the current action at all, I see no reason for average soldiers to be ashamed. They stepped in to protect Russian people. They are not shooting and killing anyone - at least for now. They are not torturing ukranians, beating anyone, maradeuring and such. On personal level, they are doing nothing wrong (on political level Russia does).

Protecting them from what... the legal repercussions of treason? They might be ethnic Russian, but they are still Ukrainian by nationality.

Should they (Ukrainians) have to tolerate Russian nationalism within their borders any more than Russia has to tolerate nationalism from minority groups in their borders (and we all know how much that is tolerated)? Or is this a case of 'might makes right"?
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