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NutmegYankee

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9. Clearly the nuiance is not understood by these people

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2026, 04:10 PM

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It's not that Ukraine is at war, it's that vast portions of it's citizens and territory are under foreign occupation, making a vote in those regions impossible. In the US Civil War, the South walked away. But if the South had occupied several Northern states, we might have faced this same problem.

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