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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow the sheer lack of self-recognition in this guy... Dude, you ARE the Nazi that you pretend to be fighting against. It doesn't matter if you're American or Russian, you 'proud boys' are all the same.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Thank God the Ukrainian military isn’t notoriously packed with Nazis! Because Biden has already given $75 billion to these people, and what do you call someone who gives money to Nazis?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (13 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

How long until people start unironically and uncritically reposting from the Azov telegram channels?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (32 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Yes, American soldiers would never do such things. They are distributing bananas and chocolate during war times to POW, have a lot of occasions to do so during the last decades.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Side note: The American army unofficially encourages their combat arms branch soldiers to shoot wounded combatants during combat and to double-tap the wounded and the dead while assaulting through killzones so they don't have to worry about 'bullshit rules' relating to capturing POWs including 'bullshit' things such as delivering life-saving first aid or the "hassle" of transporting them to a location to properly process them as POWs under the international rules of war.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He also says his comrades once took captive a Polish soldier, forced him to stand on his knees, and killed him by shooting him in the head.

Sounds like a foreign mercenary to which the laws of war relating to prisoners of war don't apply.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

the guy who killed him is also a mercenary. and poles live in ukraine, there are lawful combatants from the polish citizens of ukraine.

e: the article says "volunteer" but that still seems like something that would need a trial to determine whether they lacked protections before a summary execution. that should apply to any participants from neighboring countries' ethnicities

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The definition of mercenary for POW purposes requires that the mercenary not be from the country which the armed forces are from. Russian guy fighting for Russian military via PMC is not a mercenary. Polish guy fighting for Ukranian military via PMC could be.

You're right in that a trial should be conducted but given that there's plenty of Ukrainians uploading videos of them torturing Russian POWs, I think we're well past that point.

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

Bad take. Killing prisoners is unacceptable if it isn't in crisis or revolution.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

libs: look at this bad thing about russia i found online! (source: ihaterussians.ua/pleaseletusintonato)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When are you guys going to abandon this tankie infested shit hole of a world news sub and go to another one?

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