Yes, war crimes are upsetting. But why are Russia's war crimes more upsetting than Ukraine's? There are generals in Ukraine trying to argue that Russian soldiers aren't entitled to Geneva convention protections because Russia never declared war. This in response to a video showing Russian soldiers being tortured and murdered. It's hard to buy the moral high ground argument when they have officials defending this behavior.
I saw a story that Ukrainian civilians poisoned food they gave to Russian soldiers, and that two Russian soldiers died. It's war. It's horrifying. Between the prisoners in the Ukraine that Z Man let out to fight and I'd guess a number of brutal Ukrainians, despite how this is being portrayed in coverage, I'd guess there's no shortage of brutality, given that more than 14,000 Ukrainians had died between 2014 and the start of this war in their civil war. Again, it's war. Horrors are going to happen until this madness is ended.
And it's a war that should not have happened, but the West seemed committed to letting it happening.
Yes, war crimes are upsetting. But why are Russia's war crimes more upsetting than Ukraine's? There are generals in Ukraine trying to argue that Russian soldiers aren't entitled to Geneva convention protections because Russia never declared war. This in response to a video showing Russian soldiers being tortured and murdered. It's hard to buy the moral high ground argument when they have officials defending this behavior.
I saw a story that Ukrainian civilians poisoned food they gave to Russian soldiers, and that two Russian soldiers died. It's war. It's horrifying. Between the prisoners in the Ukraine that Z Man let out to fight and I'd guess a number of brutal Ukrainians, despite how this is being portrayed in coverage, I'd guess there's no shortage of brutality, given that more than 14,000 Ukrainians had died between 2014 and the start of this war in their civil war. Again, it's war. Horrors are going to happen until this madness is ended.
And it's a war that should not have happened, but the West seemed committed to letting it happening.