A Russian soldier of Wagner private military company admitted in an interview with a Russian Ryazan-based outlet Svoya…
  • Asiaticus@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Yes, American soldiers would never do such things. They are distributing bananas and chocolate during war times to POW, have a lot of occasions to do so during the last decades.

    • SeaJ@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      What do American soldiers have to do with this? That is not even a good whataboutism.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Side note: The American army unofficially encourages their combat arms branch soldiers to shoot wounded combatants during combat and to double-tap the wounded and the dead while assaulting through killzones so they don’t have to worry about ‘bullshit rules’ relating to capturing POWs including ‘bullshit’ things such as delivering life-saving first aid or the “hassle” of transporting them to a location to properly process them as POWs under the international rules of war.

      • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Lemme put it this way. If I’m a brown person and I’ve made an enemy of both the Taliban and the U.S. military: which side do you think is better to be caught by? The side that will put a bullet in your head, or the side that will put an electric drill inside your head?

        War is war. Either you are appalled that people are killing each other or you aren’t, don’t act like murderers not following “rules” matters to you.

    • SeaJ@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      Can bad things about Russia not be pointed out? I thought hexbear users were happy to point out when Russia was in the wrong.

    • SeborrheicDermatitis [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Bad source for sure though there is ample evidence (you can watch videos of it) of quite large-scale execution and torture of PoWs among Russian and Wagner troops. It has happened on both sides but certainly far more on the Russian side…

        • SeborrheicDermatitis [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          1 year ago

          There has been no quantitative data released but based on solid reporting in re-taken areas e.g., Bucha it is evident that there were large-scale arbitrary executions.

          By contrast, Russian media has presented little evidence of large-scale executions. There have been individual cases but there is no evidence to suggest it is as systemic.

          While you are right to critique my claim, which I should not have made with such certainty perhaps, one can collate the available evidence and make a claim with reasonable-albeit not total-confidence. If Russia did have evidence of large-scale execution of PoWs, they’d obviously put it in their own friendly media outlets + it would be in Russian Telegrams.

    • SMITHandWESSON@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      War is ugly. That’s probably happening on both sides. You try not killing a guy that’s was shooting to kill you.