If they didn't, then you'd still have 300,000 bodies to throw at them - not to mention openly breaking treaties isn't a good look internationally - particularly if you're trying to build a counter bloc or at least ensure neutrality
ElHexo
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That article is amazing
More than 3,000 civilians were killed as a result of the war in Donbas (2014–2022), but there is no evidence to support the claim that Ukraine committed the genocide of Russian-speaking people or ethnic Russians in Ukraine.[8] Before Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the intensity of the hostilities in the Donbas had been steadily declining since the signing of the Minsk agreements in February 2015.[9] For example, according to Ukrainian authorities, 50 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in clashes with Donbas separatists in 2020.
- civilians have died in Donbas but it's not the Ukraine government
- things have been getting better since the Minsk agreements (no numbers)
- for example, [only] 50 Ukrainian government soldiers died in 2020
Serious question, would you save 300,000 Ukrainian lives if it meant giving up 100 square kilometres of land to Russia?
and cry abt it
Not reporting to the government that people were hiding Jews was illegal in certain countries in the 1940s, so I'm glad you're not in that time period because it sounds like you'd be reporting the lot of them
Leaking confidential information, as damning as it may be, is illegal.
Julian Assange wasn't even fucking American or in America
Yes, it was the British Ambassador IIRC and the Australian prime minister caused a minor drama by reading out the cable like the next day.
Incidentally that Australian Labor Prime Minister was informing to the US for decades prior and led the US-proposed agreement between unions, corporates and the government which ended up collapsing the union movement and bringing in a wave of austerity a decade later.
Yikes