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Ukraine's National Corruption Prevention Agency added major food corporations PepsiCo and Mars to the "international sponsors of war" list on Sept. 1.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (15 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (12 children)

What about:

  • the England
  • the Germany
  • the France
  • the Sweden
  • the Russia
  • the Poland

Normal country names don't begin with "the"

"The United States of America" makes grammatical sense. "The Ukraine" or any of the above doesn't .

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