• SignorPao@lemmy.world
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    1_ If the US did something like that, they must be criticized and punished in trials, nobody with a brain denies that. 2_ Just because the US did a bad thing doesn’t mean Russia is free to do it too. 3_ Whataboutism won’t change the fact Russia is a criminal state.

    • GoodPointSir@lemmy.ca
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      1. Yes, the US paid reparations to the Japanese for their racist policy against them. I’m pointing out what they did was racist and shitty, just like what Lithuania is doing is racist and shitty.

      2. I’m not arguing for Russia’s invasion, I’m arguing against forced deportation of Russian people from Lithuania.

      3. Whataboutism is using one evil to justify another evil. I’m using one evil to HIGHLIGHT another evil. In fact, bringing up the war in Ukraine to justify deporting Russians in Lithuania is Whataboutism.

      • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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        That’s a lot of words to say “I didn’t read the article so I don’t know why the Russian invasion of Ukraine is related to this subject”.

        • GoodPointSir@lemmy.ca
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          I’m saying the Russian invasion doesn’t justify deporting Russians living in Lithuania for no other reason, just like how the war with Japan didn’t justify putting Japanese people in concentration camps.

          The Russian government are using Russians living in neighboring countries as an excuse to invade them, but it’s not like they wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if there weren’t any Russians there. It’s obviously a pretense, and has nothing to do with the ACTUAL Russians living in Lithuania.

          • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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            It’s okay, I’ll read it again for you. Won’t take long to get there since the second paragraph says this:

            The rejections follow the introduction of a mandatory questionnaire … [including] questions on the Russian war in Ukraine and whether Crimea belongs to Kyiv.

            This suggests that they were chosen for providing answers in line with Putin’s batshit fantasy of the new Russian empire.

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        1% of Russian and Belarusian nationals living in Lithuania had their visas revoked. This is not a round up all the russkies and put them in a camp. This is a this one person out of 100 has to leave.