President signed the legislation championed by late senator Lindsey Graham last month but has waived the restrictions as they were due to come into effect
Maybe “the West” no longer exists. There’s just the US and then there’s Europe, and each of them is doing their own thing.
Doesn’t matter when the clause was introduced.
Russia has elections like North Korea has elections. Putin might be popular, but so is Trump.
Didn’t you say Nations don’t have a right to exist, anyway?
I said that nations are based on the democratic mandate of the Individual, which was the referendum.
You don’t get to decide people “voted wrong”. That’s not democracy. That’s empire.
is what you said.
I don’t decide people voted wrong, indeed. History looks at how elections were conducted, - and frankly, even common sense should point out - that people recently occupied by a foreign power usually do not get to vote freely and independently. Look at the annexation of Austria by Hitler. I think the Krim „referendum“ had only 95 or 97% approved instead of 99%, but you get the point.
No, I don’t get your point. A rushed referendum is sure as fuck better and more legitimate than any coup.
You don’t get to unring that bell. Sorry, not sorry.
Well, therein lies your problem.
Coups are my problem. Nazis are my problem.
And Nazi coups are definitely my problem.