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Although the situation is thoroughly not funny, because the idea that a foreign power would organise referenda in jurisdictions they don't legally and not even defacto control is so ludicrous, a Dutch comic organised a referendum for the annexation of Russia by the Netherlands. Please vote! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVv3ofeBnME

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I seem to remember we "oversaw" a number of referenda in Afghanistan and Iraq during our years of occupation. I don't think that makes it right, but it probably doesn't give us a leg to stand on.

Where there any? I don't recall.

If there were, I wager they not held with a weeks notice, without any involvement of local authorities while 80% of the population was on the run and the other 20% being terrorized in quite the way Ukrainians are in the occupied territories.

All the elections in Iraq that happened before 2011 while Iraq was occupied by the US [0]. And all of Afghan elections.

But of course referendums in the Ukraine are a joke given that big part of population fled the war.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Iraq

Not sure if it's the same thing here. The US didn't attempt to turn Afghanistan or Irak into a US state, have them fly the "Old Glory" and their kids recite the pledge of allegiance when school starts.

Those symbols don't matter to international capital.

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