• severien@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    they would be well in the way to peacefully integrating by now.

    I disagree. With the Hong Kong fiasco, any hope for re-integration disappeared.

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      1 year ago

      Yes Hong Kong was the big reveal but they only had to wait there as well. It all could have happened peacefully if they had just been patient.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, HK was when hope for peace started to die.

        Everyone expects Russia to Russia, but as deluded as they were, we still had hopes China could slowly join a peaceful international society.

        Inb4 hexbears start hexbearing.