• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    did they need to have a poll for this? it seems crazy to me. can we just have a poll and then dissolve into another country?

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      10 days ago

      If a country is sovereign and independent, its government can do whatever the fuck it wants, as long as the people don’t start building guillotines.

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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          Sure it was only the voting public’s marginal preference at one point in time and it matches exactly with Russian geopolitical aims and it’s a non-binding referendum pushed by moneyed interests and it was never going to be a good idea but that’s what it looks like to have a mandate for abandoning free trade, international standards, freedom of movement, and a privileged status in the federation.