10 years of living under Putin's tyranny today.

The Crimea was illegally occupied by Putin 10 years ago today, and the oppression of Ukrainians living under that dictator is still just as bad.

www.cnn.com/2024/03/17/europe/crimea-russia-annexation-anniversary-intl-cmd/index.html

This Putin guy is kinda fishy. When his feet are moving, he isn't walking, the earth is spinning with his trajectory.

@WassimBerbar said in #2:
> This Putin guy is kinda fishy. When his feet are moving, he isn't walking, the earth is spinning with his trajectory.

Agreed, like all dangerous dictators, he forces attention on himself by the danger he poses to all.

Being a good dictator is a tightrope walk, you must make threats to ensure circumstances favor you - however you can't always make idle threats and must occasionally show you're serious and as mad as you actually pretend to be ... or you're just ignored (like NK)

@Mopman said in #1:
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Have you ever been to Crimea?

@sssvekla said in #5:
> Have you ever been to Crimea?

Are you going to say how happy the Ukrainians are under Putin like the Germans said about their occupied countries under Hitler?

@Mopman said in #6:
> Are you going to say how happy the Ukrainians are under Putin like the Germans said about their occupied countries under Hitler?

No, I was just wondering. There is no point in arguing with newspaperhead.

@sssvekla said in #7:
> No, I was just wondering. There is no point in arguing with newspaperhead.

I feel the same way about those who support vicious dictators.

@Mopman please couldn't you tell me where are you from?

Whether Russians like it or not is completely irrelevant

That it was invaded and the government overthrown by unmarked soldiers is relevant

A series of international crimes aren't forgiven because the people who benefited from them are happy lol

And if Crimea was so eager to rejoin they could've done it legitimately rather than illegally

(truth is they were relying on Yanukovych to be their puppet to reacquire Crimea - and have him push for returning it) - but when the people ousted him, the plan was destined to fail.