Without quibbling with your history, Dave, the horrid history of other countries does not excuse Russia today.
On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 2:35 PM Dave Lindorff <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds a bit like Ukraine's historical treatment of Jews, resident ethnic > Russians and other minorities. > Look, few of the European countries, and fewer even among the Eastern > European countries, have a record to brag about of mistreatment of minority > populations in their midst. The problem for Crimea is not Russia, it is a > Putrin dictatorship and the fact also that it iw a region under attack by > Ukraine. War zones and nations at war are notiorious for mistreating > potential enemies within their borders. Think of the Nesei in the US in > WWII or German-Americans or German immigrants in the US during WWII. > > Dave. > > > > On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 1:56 PM Anthony Boynton <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Ten Years Since Its Annexation, Crimea Serves as a Grim Warning to Any >> Ukrainian Lands That Fall Under Russian Occupation >> >> The ten years since the annexation of Crimea has been a dismal exercise >> in the suppression of a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society by a >> ruthless regime that tolerates no identities apart from the one that it >> prescribes. >> >> >> >> >> https://portside.org/2024-03-29/ten-years-its-annexation-crimea-serves-grim-warning-any-ukrainian-lands-fall-under >> >> > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29763): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29763 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105251029/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
