• Grapho@lemmy.mlOP
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    13 hours ago

    You handwaved it away and deflected back to your State department bullet points and atrocity propaganda.

    Fact: there was a US financed coup.

    Fact: states have a right to secede under Ukrainian law by referendum, and they exercised that right when their sovereignty was violated

    Fact: sovereign nations have a right to request aid from their allies. Donetsk and Lugansk exercised that right when Ukrainian Nazis refused to abide by the many ceasefires Russia helped to negotiate.