• OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    But it disputes the implication that the dissolution of the USSR was the cause of the problem.

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      9 months ago

      next you’ll be suggesting that womens suffrage didn’t cause nuclear war! 😱

      correlation 🤝 causation

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      9 months ago

      That implication wasn’t made. The original comment mentions how it took men 70 years to drain it (meaning that the drainage started during the USSR), and the comment below does not challenge that fact.