Except where Putin has succeeded in gaining a military victory: In Chechnya, the Chechen Republic. — ssu
which strategy is most likely to quickly reduce the scale of war crimes. — Isaac
I get that there are actual psychopaths, but that's not what's usually happening. It's mostly walking wounded, trying to pass their wounds on to somebody else. — frank
think the wound you speak of is the idea that politicians are all equally bad, and therefore that there can be no hope from politics. This idea is painful to hold, as it tells us we are powerless collectively. Especially so when one sees other folks still believing in a collective or another, and fighting for a cause.
It's cause envy. — Olivier5
REDUCE. Reduce. Reduce. — Isaac
Isaac the apologist seems to be on the roll, again.Pointing out that there is still some war crime activity in occupied territories is not an argument that there is more war crime activity in occupied territories than there is in the actual war. — Isaac
According to the pro-Moscow Chechnya government, 160,000 combatants and non-combatants died or have gone missing in the two wars, including 30,000–40,000 Chechens and about 100,000 Russians; while separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov (deceased) repeatedly claimed about 200,000 ethnic Chechens died as a consequence of the two conflicts.According to a count by the Russian human rights group Memorial in 2007, up to 25,000 civilians have died or disappeared since 1999. According to Amnesty International in 2007, the second war killed up to 25,000 civilians since 1999, with up to another 5,000 people missing.
If you're not interested in a conversation, just say so. — Tzeentch
But speaking of western support for the war in Ukraine.
Would the West still be supporting the war in Ukraine under say, a Republican US president and a right-leaning (read, anti-EU) Europe? — Tzeentch
It sure ain't just some elites in Washington and Brussels.
... be worthwhile?talks, diplomacy, more transparency, more bona fides signs
What does Putin want...? To de-NATO and de-Nazify...? Hard to tell exactly — jorndoe
Yes.Would the West still be supporting the war in Ukraine under say, a Republican US president and a right-leaning (read, anti-EU) Europe? — Tzeentch
that's up to them — Isaac
And who said they never intended to use it? Maybe they did. — Tzeentch
Airports are important military targets, either for own use or denying them to the enemy. If a military force occupies an area of land, I would expect them to secure every single airport, regardless of their immediate intentions or use by the enemy. — Tzeentch
So there is a reasonable conclusion that this risky mission was warranted to secure an airbridge — apokrisis
Considering the enormous harms of continued war, anyone not playing out their Star Wars fantasies would need an extremely good reason to justify continued war. — Isaac
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