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Re:Russians Seem Interested in My Book About How Dictatorshi... by carlmr on Sunday May 07, 2023 @02:17PM (#35854055)
The EU is quite liberal in accepting countries to the anti-war club, but they need to adhere to some standards regarding human rights, trade, and democracy.

If you crash your own party with some people that don't fit in, you will cause the guests you wanted to have to leave.

Any countries not in the EU don't want to be in the EU. And that's fine.

And looking at what the EU does you don't have to be scared if you don't join. It's a defensive union first and foremost.

Switzerland isn't scared about the EU invading despite largely uncontrolled borders.

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Re:Russians Seem Interested in My Book About How Dictatorshi... by egao1980 on Sunday May 07, 2023 @07:47PM (#35856694)
Latvia and Estonia are allowed to have Nazi parades and repress Russian speaking population i.e. non-citizens, language police and criminal sentences for pro-Russian activists. EU looks some other way all the time. See for example https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/outrage-as-s... or https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2019-03-16/ty-arti...

This is not how human rights and democracy should look like.

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Re:Russians Seem Interested in My Book About How Dictatorshi... by hgsgm on Sunday May 07, 2023 @09:44PM (#35857239)
The US has Confederacy parades, and also has criminal sentences for being an unregisteres agent of a foreign power.
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Re:Russians Seem Interested in My Book About How Dictatorshi... by ghostwriter on Sunday May 07, 2023 @10:44PM (#35857547)
> The US has Confederacy parades, and also has criminal sentences for being an unregisteres agent of a foreign power.

No wonder the US did everything to save the nazi collaborator responsible for the massacre of ~100k Poles in Eastern Galicia from a post-war tribunal justice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Lebed#Post-war_activiti...

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Re:Russians Seem Interested in My Book About How Dictatorshi... by hgsgm on Sunday May 07, 2023 @09:41PM (#35857226)
Would the EU be on good terms with Germany if a Nazi party member became the current dictator?

That's basically the situation in Russia with Putin after the USSR.

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