https://nitter.net/TarikCyrilAmar/status/1678332708227895297

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    This isn't a question of fascist demands, its a question of preserving civilian lives.

    Invading the Donbas didn't end fascism in Eastern Europe any more than invading Afghanistan ended the threat of domestic terrorism in the United States.

    It literally doesn't matter how you try to justify this humanitarian atrocity. The Russian invasion only served the interests of European fascism in the long run, without doing anything to preserve the lives of the Donbas residents it was supposed to protect.

    Might as well suggest we needed to bomb Auschwitz in order to kill all the German guards as bomb Ukraine to kill the fascists.

    • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah? Some anti Nazi resistance fighters asked the RAF to bomb the death camps, because anything was preferable to Auschwitz continuing to exist. There were people who wanted that.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        1 year ago

        Some anti Nazi resistance fighters asked the RAF to bomb the death camps

        Well, if some random assorted collection of anonymous people said so, I guess the Allies really missed an opportunity to do an even more reprehensible attack than Tokyo or Dresden.

        • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Heres an article with some names. 5 min research.

          "In June 1944, John W. Pehle, the executive director of the War Refugee Board, appealed to the U.S. government to bomb the railways leading into Auschwitz. In July, Johan J. Smertenko, the executive vice chairman of the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, sent a letter to President Roosevelt asking him to bomb the extermination camps, especially the “poison gas chambers of [the] Auschwitz and Birkenau camps.”" https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/why-wasnt-auschwitz-bombed/