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Khodakovsky is already in his home country, which he has been defending from Azov since 2014.
Except that Donetsk is not a legally recognized country. And Khodakovsky is a militant who has been responsible for destabilizing and destroying his own country by starting a civil war.
I just can't imagine why people would rise up against a regime that was doing these things to their own people
Oo, now share the one of a Russian beheading a live Ukrainian soldier on camera.
Good lol. Death to nazi
Ah yes, this happened first and then Russia backed separatists (let’s be fair Russian troops were directly involved) declared independence!
And your point is?
They didn’t rise up because a regime undertook war crimes. They did rise up and in response Ukraine committed warcrimes.
The regime was very much committing crimes against the ethnic Russian population before they rose up. People don't just rise and go to fight to the death for fun.
Well, neither is Taiwan, but that doesn't stop people like you from constantly whining about it.
I suppose it hinges on democratic legitimacy. Taiwan obviously is supported (as a de facto state entity) by more or less the whole population. Is the same true for the D/LPRs? Do we think a majority wanted to then join Russia, and that the referendums were free and fair (especially given the 'results' in the Kherson and Kharkhiv regions which did not support Russia).
I don't know the answer to that question, but that is what hinges on whether one supports the existence of the D/LPRs as independent entities. Whether they are truly the reflection of their people's right to self-determination and whether they, as pseudo-states, actually have democratic legitimacy.
Whataboutism is when your blatant hypocrisy and lack of logical, moral and ideological backbone is pointed out. Whataboutism is when it is made clear you do not actually hold the values you claim to hold.
That's the mantra of a hypocrite
Whataboutism is the redoubt of the intellectually impoverished and/or lazy.
Almost every time I see it it's used to mean, "Don't you dare talk shit about my country, try that in a small town you liberal commie [slur]" but for the type of person who is just as nationalistic, but doesn't want to admit it.