This is an exceptionally dumb analogy, not least because there is, and was, effectively zero Spanish-speaking secessionist sentiment in this territory—a complete difference from the Ukrainian SSR.
https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1383705813907165185
This analogy is made even dumber by the fact that the Americans actively agitated *against* Ukraine breaking off from the Soviet Union.
Basic historic illiteracy.
Basic historic illiteracy.
https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1383705813907165185
A *better* analogy to Ukraine demanding independence from the USSR would be those in Hawaii rising up against Washington, not some... random swath of the American Southwest that has no sense of distinct nationhood.
https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1383770507682586625
For whatever reason, voices like Hitchens fail to realize the USSR was a federated continental empire organized around titular (and colonized) nationalities, while the U.S. is a federated continental empire that's... not.
Which is why the above analogy is so very *dumb.*
Which is why the above analogy is so very *dumb.*
There's a weird species of writer (like Hitchens, apparently) who's convinced that the demographics of the American Southwest could be the doom of the U.S., with views ranging from "completely clueless" to "completely racist." (Often both!)
https://twitter.com/bardamu722/status/1383793254911471617
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