It's not the same argument at all. If you look at the DPR and the LPR, these people have now fought for 8 long ass years for the right to leave Ukraine and join Russia. You can't chalk that up to a rigged referendum. They have suffered mightily, bled, and died to make the will of their people clear. 15,000+ of them have been killed in the fighting. The US was founded in a similar war.
A slightly weaker argument can be made for Crimea. Crimea was seized 8 years ago, but without the violent revolution. Crimea simply voted to join Russia. Now, the question of a rigged referendum arises, but we have a proxy to answer that question. Have we seen a rise in protests, crime, sabotage, or other subversive activities? Have we seen a Resistance like in Vichy France? Not at all! It has been quite peaceful. It is clear the Crimean people wanted to join Russia.
We have two other provinces: Kherson and Zaparozhia in question. They, too, voted to join Russia. And again, we get the same narrative about rigging the referenda. We don't have as much time to answer the question as we have with Crimea. I'm not familiar with any widespread resistance movement, but the wartime propaganda makes finding such things out with certainty difficult. Only the future will tell, but I strongly suspect the way Poroshchenko and now Zelensky have embraced Ukrainian nationalism and been absolutely vile to Ukrainians of Russian heritage that they'd be happy to leave that government which seems to despise them and join the Russians who treat them as brothers and fellow Russians.
However, to compare what has been done in Ukraine to Nepal or Taiwan is totally inadequate. It's an apples to oranges situation when you get to the details. The fact that you still think Russia is communist betrays some pretty intense ignorance about the current situation, so I can only suggest reading more and a wider variety of sources before giving your learned opinion.
It's not the same argument at all. If you look at the DPR and the LPR, these people have now fought for 8 long ass years for the right to leave Ukraine and join Russia. You can't chalk that up to a rigged referendum. They have suffered mightily, bled, and died to make the will of their people clear. 15,000+ of them have been killed in the fighting. The US was founded in a similar war.
A slightly weaker argument can be made for Crimea. Crimea was seized 8 years ago, but without the violent revolution. Crimea simply voted to join Russia. Now, the question of a rigged referendum arises, but we have a proxy to answer that question. Have we seen a rise in protests, crime, sabotage, or other subversive activities? Have we seen a Resistance like in Vichy France? Not at all! It has been quite peaceful. It is clear the Crimean people wanted to join Russia.
We have two other provinces: Kherson and Zaparozhia in question. They, too, voted to join Russia. And again, we get the same narrative about rigging the referenda. We don't have as much time to answer the question as we have with Crimea. I'm not familiar with any widespread resistance movement, but the wartime propaganda makes finding such things out with certainty difficult. Only the future will tell, but I strongly suspect the way Poroshchenko and now Zelensky have embraced Ukrainian nationalism and been absolutely vile to Ukrainians of Russian heritage that they'd be happy to leave that government which seems to despise them and join the Russians who treat them as brothers and fellow Russians.
However, to compare what has been done in Ukraine to Nepal or Taiwan is totally inadequate. It's an apples to oranges situation when you get to the details. The fact that you still think Russia is communist betrays some pretty intense ignorance about the current situation, so I can only suggest reading more and a wider variety of sources before giving your learned opinion.
It's kind of funny that leftists are always in an uproar about "rigged elections" when they don't like the results.
Where on Earth did I say Russia was still communist???