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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

The Russian Embassy in South Africa has shared a map online that shows illegally annexed Crimea as part of Ukraine.

A post on the embassy's account on X, formerly known as Twitter, attempted to raise the profile of the BRICS grouping of world economies but appeared instead to endorse Crimea as being part of Ukraine.

The X post showed a world map with Ukraine's borders containing not only eastern parts of its territory that Russia claims to have annexed but also Crimea—which was illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014—in addition to BRICS members.

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[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 100 points 10 months ago

That's what you get for copying someone else's homework without looking at it first.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 25 points 10 months ago

You see what happened here is they are assumed that everybody else agrees with their interpretation of reality (that Crimea belongs to Russia). Obviously that's insane, considering they're the ones with the dictatorship, but you know logic isn't really their strong point.

So no one actually bothered to look at the image, which was literally the bare minimum amount of work they could have done.

this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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