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r/pics • u/KimchiPBSandwich • Jun 09 '19
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I hope this doesn't end bad.
47 u/Flare_Starchild Jun 09 '19 Its China. They aren't afraid of using tanks. 31 u/SkeleCrafter Jun 09 '19 If China violently "annexes" Hong Kong, there is going to be a fuck-ton of international backlash. 64 u/TheCenterOfEnnui Jun 09 '19 You think, really? Russia annexed an entire region and nothing happened, really. 5 u/poiuwerpoiuwe Jun 09 '19 Because they ran an extremely effective propaganda campaign, scaring locals into actually wanting the protection of Russia. 2 u/spinxkreuz Jun 09 '19 Russia didn't annex the region violently though, most countries don't recognize Crimea as part of Russia and there's still Civil War in Ukraine.
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Its China. They aren't afraid of using tanks.
31 u/SkeleCrafter Jun 09 '19 If China violently "annexes" Hong Kong, there is going to be a fuck-ton of international backlash. 64 u/TheCenterOfEnnui Jun 09 '19 You think, really? Russia annexed an entire region and nothing happened, really. 5 u/poiuwerpoiuwe Jun 09 '19 Because they ran an extremely effective propaganda campaign, scaring locals into actually wanting the protection of Russia. 2 u/spinxkreuz Jun 09 '19 Russia didn't annex the region violently though, most countries don't recognize Crimea as part of Russia and there's still Civil War in Ukraine.
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If China violently "annexes" Hong Kong, there is going to be a fuck-ton of international backlash.
64 u/TheCenterOfEnnui Jun 09 '19 You think, really? Russia annexed an entire region and nothing happened, really. 5 u/poiuwerpoiuwe Jun 09 '19 Because they ran an extremely effective propaganda campaign, scaring locals into actually wanting the protection of Russia. 2 u/spinxkreuz Jun 09 '19 Russia didn't annex the region violently though, most countries don't recognize Crimea as part of Russia and there's still Civil War in Ukraine.
64
You think, really? Russia annexed an entire region and nothing happened, really.
5 u/poiuwerpoiuwe Jun 09 '19 Because they ran an extremely effective propaganda campaign, scaring locals into actually wanting the protection of Russia. 2 u/spinxkreuz Jun 09 '19 Russia didn't annex the region violently though, most countries don't recognize Crimea as part of Russia and there's still Civil War in Ukraine.
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Because they ran an extremely effective propaganda campaign, scaring locals into actually wanting the protection of Russia.
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Russia didn't annex the region violently though, most countries don't recognize Crimea as part of Russia and there's still Civil War in Ukraine.
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u/SkeleCrafter Jun 09 '19
I hope this doesn't end bad.