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Re:Twitter based map of Russian troop movements by toyg on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:07PM (#30461592)
> France was invaded because the liberals in France and UK refused to act against Hitler when he first invaded Poland and Austria

No, France was invaded because they didn't shore up their Northern border.

> Let's make sure to make them welcome no matter what our governments say, there's quite empty housing for everyone!

I absolutely agree, except I reckon this is the time for the Visegrad bloc to take them, for once.

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Re:Twitter based map of Russian troop movements by southerntofu on Friday February 25, 2022 @06:22AM (#30466092)
> No, France was invaded because they didn't shore up their Northern border.

Technically correct, yet completely misses the point. If you don't want to be bullied, don't let someone bully anyone else. To be clear, i'm extremely hostile to any colonial Empire (Russia/USA/France/etc) and i'm certainly not a fan of military intervention.

My point is not to compare modern Russia to the nazis, but rather that this laissez-faire policy in regards to military invasions of sovereign territories doesn't exactly have a history of leading to a more peaceful situation overall (see also: France in Mali, USA in Iraq/Afghanistan, China in Tibet, Turkey in Bakur).

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