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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago

Russians do this because its their terror. They fear the sudden bullet to the brain and think it will create fear in others. What is does it is create a resolve to defeat them. Something few russians understand because their version of it is fatalistic.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where are the ML to call it genocide? Eastern genocide is totally fine.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (6 children)

This is a war crime, not genocide. If this is your standard for genocide then you should also be saying Ukraine is committing genocide.

Russia is committing many war crimes but their goal is clearly to annex Ukrainian territory and absorb the Ukrainians into Russa. Not the eradication of Ukrainians.

As Zionists loved to point out, before Israel openly started proclaiming their goal is to kill all Palestinians and replace them; genocide requires explicit intent to destroy a population. Not only annex territory.

You cannot call every war crime 'genocide'. It is not a word you can throw around lightly. The difference in Ukraine is that Russia is still primarily killing combatants whereas Israel is killing mostly women and children.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Please ignore the forced disappearance of Ukrainian children, residents of Mariupol discovering that their bombed out homes were being rebuilt for Russian immigrants with no space left for them, the uninvestigated murders of Crimean Tartars, dropping cluster munitions on civilian evacuations, bombing of civilian shelters, bombing of hospitals, and the large scale rape and murder in Bucha

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Once again: many war crimes. Undeniable. Genocide? Likely not.

Israel is primarily slaughtering civilians. Women and children make up most of their casualties. All hospitals and infrastructure is destroyed

Russia is committing many war crimes but they are nowhere near the level of Israel; trying to wipe out the population.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, you're TECHNICALLY correct, but the Russians are on record saying Ukraine and Ukrainians do not exist as a separate people. So it's slightly more genocidy than you make out.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Person who loves tanks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

More reason to never surrender. Russians will just kill you anyway. Least have their blood create sunflowers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Fucking war criminals.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

U.S. handling of Israel's war crimes (i.e. actively protecting them from consequences) has and will continue to embolden others. Expect more of this behavior.