| ▲ | pydry 2 hours ago | |
In exchange for two brutal wars they got 9 years of de facto independence. That's not even very long. You dont need counterfactuals to ask if it was worth it or compare 9 years to the age of the universe. Armed revolutions are often lionized and glorified because they form part of most countries' national mythos - the binding agent holding together most national identities. But, the ugly truth is that most of them are just a tragic waste of human life. Chechnya was very much that. | ||
| ▲ | pasquinelli an hour ago | parent [-] | |
> You dont need counterfactuals to ask if it was worth it or compare 9 years to the age of the universe. yes you do. to say something was bad to do is to say it would've been better to have not, and that is a counterfactual. | ||