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by DeathArrow 1554 days ago
>In fact, if the US can interfere in a country that's thousands miles away by funding extremist military groups, I find it way more legitimate for Russia to fund Russian separatists in the Donbas region, which has historically had strong ties with Russia and whose population would rather stay there than join the "Western" side. It's also interesting how everybody always talks about self-determination, but only in the case where people want to "self-determine" themselves in the right direction. I would be interested in knowing why it doesn't apply in this case.

US bombed Yogoslavia into Oblivion for not agreeing to secession of a historical Serbian territory, Kosovo.

Sure, those bombs killed innocent civilians and even children but no one from the West decried those murders.