• awwwyissss@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Did you miss the part where he voluntarily went to an active battlefield as part of a violent invading force?

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                1 year ago

                Russia avoids collateral damage by intending to kill journos and civilians. It really is that easy :)

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                    1 year ago

                    The amount of pearl clutching and disinformation Russia does when ukraine does literally anything, means we have to point out the bs when we see it against ukraine. But yes it would be better if people weren’t killed.

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              If they are fabricating propaganda, why would they go to the front line? Why risk their life when, according to you, they’re just going to make everything up and say what they want anyway? Seems like the easier, safer, and more effective propaganda would simply not involve going to the front line and instead sitting in a news room, with some CGI if they’re feeling fancy, or using old footage if they’re not, and propagating that?

              Moreover, just because you don’t like what a journalist is reporting, you can’t condone killing journalists.

              Are you also saying it’d be ok to kill Russian medics, since after all, they’re just saving the lives of “Russian war criminals”? Should we suddenly open up the rules of war to allow killing medics on the side we’re fighting? The logic you’re using to defend the killing of journalists, when applied evenly, would say yes, we should allow killing of enemy medics.

              Fortunately though, the Geneva Convention disagrees with your faulty logic and recognizes that non-combat roles including medics and journalists can not be targeted and indeed care should be taken to not inadvertently kill them.

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                  Do you honestly think western reporting on the war is honest?

                  Of all the gigs that journalists do, reporting on “war” is the toughest. Not because of the dangers – though these must not to be underestimated. But when reporting “war”, journalists face off against the world’s most powerful vested interests and compete with society’s deepest cultural mythologies.

                  At its best, the Fourth Estate uncovered the My Lai massacre, the Abu Ghraib scandal and the incestuous relations in the Bush era of retired military officers, the US Defence Department and the “defence” industry.

                  In this incarnation, the Fourth Estate frightened even Napoleon. In his words:

                  “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”

                  But the military’s “reality” is powerful, insidious and covert. It is seductive.

                  From https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/embedded-journalism-and-msm-war-propaganda,7045

                  And I, for one, am not speaking for Russia when I criticise peoples’ happiness over the fact that a journalist has been killed in a war zone, just because they were Russian.

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                  1 year ago

                  So you ignore the actual argument I made, how your logic, evenly applied, would apply to killing medics as well. And you ignore the fact that your opinion here is against the Geneva Convention. You conveniently ignore the part where you don’t have to target them to have killing them be a problem; killing them is the problem. And your only retort is whataboutism: “yeah but Russia does bad”.

                  Take a look back at my comment. Apply the reasoning, and tell me: do you think we should allow killing enemy medics? If not, explain to me your contradictory stance.

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                    1 year ago

                    No. You are building a massive strawman. I never even said a word about medics.

                    You conveniently ignore everything Russia has done. Tell me, is Russia following Geneva conventions and Nuremberg principles?

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              Why would he need to be on a battlefield and take useless risk for that? If all his job is to publish propaganda dictated by the Kremlin he can do it remote working from his living room.

              You people never stop to think before commenting holy shit. Please go back to reddit.