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Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by lacampbell on Thursday July 25, 2019 @10:39PM (#20531927)
But it doesn't matter; the Russian government is very selective about how it applies the "right to self-determination".

That's the crux of the issue I think. To be consistent you would surely have to support both Chechnya and Crimea having the right to self-determination - or neither having the right to self-determination.

EDIT: So let me ask you - do you support both, or neither?

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Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by gdy on Friday July 26, 2019 @07:48AM (#20534028)
To be consistent you would surely have to condemn the US and EU for not imposing sanctions on the Chechnya.
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Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by my_first_acct on Friday July 26, 2019 @12:13AM (#20532301)
Are you asking me? I would find it hard to be consistent: Kosovo, Abkhazia, Palestine, Chechnya, Crimea, so many choices to make, so many fine differences, so much tangled history.

I do (retrospectively) support the US decision in 1861 to prevent the Confederate states from seceding, despite the expressed will of the white, property-owning part of the local population, so there's that.

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Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by lacampbell on Friday July 26, 2019 @06:30AM (#20533737)
Sounds like you pick and choose based on how much you like the ethnic group in question - which is exactly why Russia supports it for Crimea but not for Chechnya.

Ethnic conflicts aren't soccer matches where you should pick a team to support.

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Re:“My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanction... by my_first_acct on Friday July 26, 2019 @01:17PM (#20536395)
In this discussion, I've explicitly (and quite off topic) expressed support for the Union side in the US Civil War, and I've implicitly supported Ukraine's side in the Crimean dispute. I don't think that gives you enough data points to deduce whether I choose sides on the basis of ethnicity, or because of a liking for the letter U, or (most probable?) a curmudgeonly dislike of change.
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