How a country must operate during wartime versus peace is extremely different. And the UK in WWII also issued bonds and took debt. Were they no longer sovereign?

That part of your argument is ridiculous. Ukraine is an independent nation with its own sovereignty and territorial authority.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It absolutely wasnt lmao, it was literally occupied. How is this hard for y'all?

What's more, long after occupation ceased on paper, the US had such an economic, military, and diplomatic stranglehold on Japan that they bailed out the US and killed their own economy in the process in the early 80s

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If X country has military bases in Y country, that Y country is not a sovereign state. Both japan and sKorea play baseball for a reason lmao.