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Originally Posted by Pointman
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).
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Of course not, the troops are following orders and they shouldn't have anything to be ashamed about. No one is claiming the troops are abusing anyone there either. But what Russia has done is akin to a foreign country going into Chechnya at Chechnya's request against Russia's wishes and saying referendums will be held to determine the whether Chechnya will separate from Russia. The foreign power can claim till they are blue in the face that they're doing to protect Chechan people from another violent crackdown ala the second Chechan-Russia war, doesn't make the violation of Russian sovereignty any more right.
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Originally Posted by Pointman
Russia isn't denying its our troops, since about yesterday I think.
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No, but the troops claimed to be peoples militia the entire time of the invasion for almost two days all while seizing government buildings, communications pipelines and airports. This is just an analysis of equipment at this point