There’s a spectrum from indifferent to actively encouraging. The Rape of Nanking was orchestrated from the top. In the massacre at El Mozote a Salvadorean major had to come in and give the troops a pep talk when they balked at killing the children after slaughtering all their parents.
As far as the savages thing, I think it’s human nature when one country is clearly playing the evil aggressor. At the end of WWII, British civilians wanted to slaughter the German POWs. By the end of their time rebuilding the country, the mood about the Germans improved immeasurably.
Guys, after extensive research I think I’ve identified the chromosome that makes a large group of people more prone to violence. It’s the Y chromosome.
Like I said there’s a spectrum of indifference. An official policy of looking the other way while Russian troops take out their revenge on innocent civilians is still a policy. It’s not like they stopped at Germany’s borders either. What did the average Ukrainian villager do to them?
Soldiers had to help carry out the Holodomor, just like soldiers had to help carry out the Holocaust.
Again, I think soldiers are the same everywhere. It’s not hard to motivate them to do horrible things during a war. But let’s not pretend all military leadership is the same level of evil.
If I remember my school biology classes correctly, chromosomes/DNA drive the hormones that are generated in the body, although I am sure I’m massively simplifying here.
One thing I recently found out that shocked me is that while the Western front of WW2 was a conventional war the Eastern front was a genocidal race war. The war itself was the genocide of Slavic people. Their plan was to mass murder around 100 million people. It’s just absolute insanity. I suppose they didn’t teach us this in school because it gave a sympathetic view of the Soviets.
And because the people with those genocidal aspirations have continued to be “strategic” under the table paramilitary allies of NATO throughout eastern Europe up to and including the present day, for geopolitical and ideological reasons, violently destroying populist and left wing movements
And now in Ukraine the paramilitary has become official military
I see the White House is warning that Russia intends to launch cyber attacks on US infrastructure, which would not be very surprising. Should be interesting.
I think it’s fairly obtuse to post it and not assume it’d be interpreted that way (even if it wasn’t intended that way). It’s a fairly ridiculous suggestion (the Russian actions) - that yes … cannot be categorically disproven. I guess to each their own on interpretation, just thought I’d add my two cents because Victor has been banned for a week and so can’t reply.
