https://mobile.twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1509554416386547713
Ukrainians want Russians to surrender en masse. So it behooves them to treat POWs very well.
Yeah, thatās important.
focused on the important stuff as always
I donāt lie to myself about what I want.
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This.
There are some people who donāt ādeserveā due process (e.g. child killers), but I wouldnāt dream of depriving them of it. I guess itās about being a civilised society and putting people on trial instead of taking vengeance in other ways. Similar to how the Jews put Eichmann on trial instead of just torturing him for days etc.
As for the soldiers, well, thatās just about common decency. If you donāt understand that stealing, raping, torturing and executing people is wrong, youāre fucking accountable. You donāt need a degree in fucking humanitarian studies to know that shit. Put it this way, if I were a soldier, and I caught my best friend in the world raping someone, Iād probably put a gun to his head and tell him to stop, and I might be tempted to pull the trigger too. Youāre accountable for the actions of your peers if you know what they are doing and say nothing.
The reason I personally have chosen this war is probably that it coincides with my now being old enough to take much larger interest in whatās going on in the world than I did in the past, and this particular war involving my āmotherlandā as the āJames-bond villain-ishā bad guys. I canāt speak for others.
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those soldiers were no angels viktor
for someone who has repeatedly advocated for violent revolution you sure got your knickers in a bunch over people getting mad at invaders of their homeland.
Imagine not having victor on ignore in 2022.
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I generally support the efforts to equip the Ukrainians so that they can defend themselves against Russia, but Iāve gotta say all the giddy reporting about all the latest and greatest slaughter toys that the military industrial complex is pumping out is rather sickening.
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Thereās a difference between talking about aid being given and pumping out tweet after tweet detailing all the āawesomeā capabilities of the latest military tech.
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Oh fuck off.
EDIT: Arenāt you the guy who went on a COVID-spreading bender across south Florida? Not sure youāre well positioned to call other people sickening.
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No u.
Yawn
I second the idea that itās insanely crass to tout the awesome military capabilities of a country that has lied its way into war after war after war. Say a prayer for the people affected and save the fetishism.
Surf: (Assuming itās not used against civilians obviously)
My adult life has been partially defined by the leaders of my country using these sick weapons on civilians. Whenever a weapon like this is created, it is a mortal lock that the United States will use it on innocents. We need more people opposing the fetishism of death-dealing devices
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I dunno guys, seems unlikely that Ukrainians are going to be bombing Ukrainian civilians with their new precision drone. Probably going to attack Russian trucks.
It also seems unlikely that this weapon is ever used by the U.S. If you read the tweets, youāll see that it was a rush job built to Ukrainian specs, so the MIC will probably want to make sure that the US military adopts something much more expensive and less effective.
Also @moderators, itās going to be so much easier for you to just excise this to the LC thread now rather than wait until thereās 100 posts of it to move.
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The locals donāt obey the stop signs. But they can at least get the Brits, Aussies, Americansā¦. To actually stop
Itās not great, but technology is ever improving and if itās not the USA, someone else will find ways to use the increased in technology for death/destruction. Itās a foregone conclusion.