• geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    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.

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        11 hours ago

        The Kremlin has accused Ukrainian soldiers of executing more than 10 Russian prisoners of war following the circulation of a video on social media purporting to be from the frontline.

        The footage appears to show a group of Russian soldiers emerging from an outbuilding in the grounds of a house with their hands above their heads before they are told to lie facedown.

        One of the men wearing all black, however, seems to turn his gun on what appears to be a Ukrainian unit of soldiers wearing yellow armbands as he emerges from the half-destroyed outhouse.

        The footage, seemingly taken by a Ukrainian soldier, suggests that all the Russians, including those in a prone position, were killed in the violence that followed. There are at least 12 bodies.

        Just video footage. No Ukrainian government to say it so it didn’t happen! As pathetic as questioning whether Russians executed the Ukrainian POW’s. When there is a video of it happening there’s no point in screaming source source.

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          8 hours ago

          You think Russians can’t dress people up and stage an event like that? Really? Lol and that’s not even critical thinking, just the regular kind.

          Obviously sources need to be taken seriously, and Russia is not a good one. But yeah, let’s just trust propaganda entirely like you do. Your arguments are laughable.

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      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

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        16 hours ago

        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.

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          16 hours ago

          Lmao, “it’s only a little bit of genocide lasting a century, not as bad as this other one, totally cool”.

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      17 hours ago

      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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        16 hours ago

        A state or group and its inhabitants are not the same.

        If someone says “Death to Russia”, “death to Israel” or “death to ISIS” this does not mean wishing death upon everyone who lives under their rule. It means trying to get rid of the group ruling them.

        Russia says Ukrainians do not exist as a separate people and tries to annex their land: war crime.

        Israel says Palestinians do not exist (not the state, the people) and that they want kill them all, expell them from their land and put them in a concentration camp: genocide.

        This is not a “technicality”. This is the crux of what genocide means. It is not a word to be thrown around lightly.

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        18 hours ago

        Nowhere did they say Ukraine is committing genocide. They said Ukraine also executed POW’s which is backed up by video evidence.

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          Hey, remember how that article is unverified by independent sources and comes directly from Russia? Ya know, propaganda? Hey, that video evidence that you claim is proof, can’t Russian soldiers dress up as Ukrainian and then execute people?

          Hey, do you have any independent thoughts going on?

          STILL waiting on a response. Lmao

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          Because they implied it. I’m familiar with how that works, from tankies to conservatives. You should be too.

          STILL waiting on that response, six hours later, about the executions Russia alleged with no independent verified sources. How is that a “good example”? Using propaganda as a source and then trying to claim that user didn’t imply it? Okay lol

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            They did not imply it. They said that executing POW’s is not genocide but a war crime. Then they provided a good example showing why it is a war crime and not genocide.

            You are imagining them saying something they did not say.

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              12 hours ago

              Still waiting on why unverified reports by Russia (propaganda) is a “good example” lmao

              Did I imagine that too?

              Downvotes and has not once mentioned how their entire argument hinges on false propaganda.

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              12 hours ago

              They definitely implied it by denying Russian genocide, ignoring relevant historical context, and then drawing a false equivalency on the standard of genocide by saying: “If this is your standard for genocide then you should also be saying Ukraine is committing genocide.”

              The example wasn’t very good when surrounded by context. That article is also reports by Russia, unverified by independent sources (read: propaganda). I didn’t imagine anything, I just read it and I am familiar with how these types operate. Same playbook as MAGA.

              You’ll notice further down the chain they refuted nothing, used a buzz word, and resorted to mockery.

              Still waiting on your response about using propaganda as a “good example”.

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                17 hours ago

                They linked an article about Ukrainians executing POW’s. That is a directly applicable comparison to this post.

                They mocked you because you are making up things they did not say.

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                  Okay. You didn’t read the articles I linked and you don’t mention or seem to understand why the historical context is relevant and important to that incident.

                  I don’t even think you read that article they linked, because it comes from Russian sources with no independent verification. Most likely it is propaganda. Is it still directly applicable? Am I still the one making stuff up? Keep on defending tankies though.

                  9 hours later and still waiting on your response about how Russian propaganda that’s unverified by any independent source is “directly applicable”?? Almost like you’re a liar.

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                    17 hours ago

                    None of the articles you linked imply Russia is currently committing genocide in Ukraine. A list of past genocides including the Nazis has little relevance on the present. Except that you are admitting the current invasion is not a genocide… because it is not on the list you linked.

                    Calling everything tankie is not an argument and you should stop doing it.

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                  16 hours ago

                  Still waiting for that response to the Russian propaganda article that wasn’t verified by independent sources. You’re very pro-independent sources right? Or is that only when it bolsters your argument?

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            20 hours ago

            Consider reading my top comment again and do it slowly. Then feel very ashamed of yourself for being illiterate.

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                  19 hours ago

                  Jesus Christ, that was your takeaway? If you actually read the links I posted, you’ll see that Russia/Soviet Union imperialists have been doing the exact same thing to Ukraine that Israeli Zionists are doing to Palestine. Both are genocidal, for over a century now.

                  Were you home schooled or something?