• Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    What rules of engagement? Yankee forces routinely bomb civilians. Although I suppose wine cave bastards ignore that

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      What rules of engagement? Yankee forces routinely bomb civilians.

      Exactly. Such rules only exist as an after the fact excuse for any setbacks or defeats. They aren't actually practiced with any consistency.

      • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        It’s like how copaganda uses the loose cannon trope to show how cops are only bad because of pesky “laws” and “regulations”

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Decades of that shit have normalized the idea that the only way to beat the bad guys is to put less oversight and accountability on the good guys. galaxy-brain

    • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Ukraine forces literally used Ukraine citizens as hostages and shields during the first few months, keeping them locked in basements under their fortifications and not letting them leave on the Russian free passage routes

        • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZsWKXDKI-0

          eye witness accounts

          Russia had an agreement where they had daily ceasefires and a safe evacuation route, and they held it open for weeks and nobody went down them. Ukraine forbade civilians from evacuating and escaping, and then whined and complained about civilians being attacks when Russia sieged mariupol