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Re:China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong by obiye on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:26AM (#23687564)
Right. That’s why millions of people clamor every year to immigrate to Russia for a better life. Get a grip. The world is not black and white.
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Re:China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong by freeone3000 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:43AM (#23687662)
Here's immigration stats for Russia: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/RUS/russia/immigration....

Of course millions are clamoring to immigrate to Russia for a better life - it's a rich, stable country!

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Re:China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong by fuoqi on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @04:56AM (#23688112)
Last civil conflict in Russia was the second Chechen war.

By all definitions it's Ukraine in the state of civil war, not Russia. More than 90% of Donbas rebels are Ukrainian citizens. Russia of course supports the pro-Russian side in this conflict, but foreign interference during civil wars is so common, you could call it a rule.

And even outside the war zone you can see a strong polarization in Ukrainian society (just look at the recent news about an attempted murder of an opposition party member by far-right nationalists), with nothing comparable in Russia.

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Re:China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong by obiye27 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:51AM (#23691284)
Ukraine is not in civil war, Ukraine was invaded. I hope you supported the Iraq war? What a terrible civil conflict we had to get involved in.
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Re:China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong by ric2b on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @08:00AM (#23689180)
> So stable it has multiple ongoing civil conflicts.

Can you mention one?

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Re:China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong by obiye27 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:48AM (#23691252)
Crimea/Ukraine. Civil because they stole the land. Chechnya. Literally run by terrorists who murder their own people daily. And let’s throw in the casual assassination of domestic political dissidents as a free one. We should have dealt with Russia the proper way in the Cold War and glassed it end to end. I am hopeful we still will.
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Re:China has passed a national security law for Hong Kong by _-___________-_ on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:48AM (#23687693)
> That’s why millions of people clamor every year to immigrate to Russia for a better life

They literally do.

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