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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by peteretep on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:05PM (#11678773) 

    > Russia seemed to do OK with the conquest of Crimea
While I'm no Putin apologist, Russian "conquest" of Crimea is a bit like hypothetical Éire conquest of Northern Ireland. You're certainly going to upset a lot of people, but it's also hardly black and white.
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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by hackuser on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:58PM (#11679213)
> it's also hardly black and white

No, I think it's clear. The Russians invaded another country, conquered Ukranian land and kidnapped Ukrainian people.

EDIT: Fixed the ambiguous pronouns

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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by peteretep on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:10PM (#11679769) 

    > Their military invaded
"Their" being Russian here...

    > conquered their land and kidnapped their people
By 'their', you mean the people of Crimea, of which over 50% identify as Russians?
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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by hackuser on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:34PM (#11679917)
You can't invade another country because people "identify" as something. It's an absurd argument, worthy of the Kremlin (from whence it comes).

Plus, IIRC that survey was also Russian propaganda.

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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by flashman on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @09:49PM (#11680799)
Under that logic, the 87% Hispanic population of Texas's 15th and 34th congressional districts ought to welcome the Mexican army.
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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by hackuser on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:10PM (#11681078)
Don't forget cities like New York, with China Town, Crown Heights, etc. etc. etc. It's going to be a challenge to manage all those national borders in such a small area.
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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by lazylizard on Thursday May 12, 2016 @07:42AM (#11682687)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
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Re:Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes by chx on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:53PM (#11679646)
Hardly black and white? Care to provide us with some sources which provides the legal grounds for Russia annexing a part of Ukraine?
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