• SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you’re just now deciding you want to flee, you’ve already chosen your battles.

    This war has been going on for 1,5 years, but now that the drones are circling Moscow you’re suddenly making an issue, whilst being quiet while Ukrainians were killed by kamikaze drones? Quite hypocritical.

    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Average citizens aren’t going to leave their family homes because their government is waging war on innocent people. I, personally, did not leave the US while we bombed the shit out of several undeserving countries. If those countries had managed to start bombing California with any efficacy, I would probably try to leave.

      • jarfil@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        On the other side of the border…

        “Average citizens have been forced to leave their family homes because that same government is waging war on innocent people.”

        Sure, you can stay until it impacts you personally… but don’t expect anyone whom your country was calling an “enemy”, to take you in just like that.

    • vlad@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      I think that’s a very flawed way to look at this. Just because it’s been 1.5 years doesn’t mean that every person living inside a series of imaginary lines on a map is responsible for the minority that is in charge of that shaded map regeon. By that logic, you’re at fault for whatever your government has done since you’ve become a legal adult. If you are one.

      Putin took power when most of the people fighting in this war were small children. There’s not been a real election since.