So he lets the guy off because he's wounded? What happens when he recovers, goes back to the front and kills ten Ukrainian's? If he was going to be captured then yes no need to kill him but a wounded man is a future threat.
I fully agree with this statement, whilst the current Laws of Armed Conflict are very reasonable guidelines, I fear if we were forced into a peer/near peer modern conflict we would find limitations to the current guidelines. Some aspects of warfare have moved on so much in the time since these guidelines were conceived. Some aspects of warfare would have never even have been conceivable to the minds that created the current rules we work to.
I'll stress for those brining up "my mental wellbeing"
I'm honestly really not bothered, the amount of combat footage I've watched from a young age is probably "disturbing" if a trained psychiatrist was to diagnose me.
I'm more interested in creating discussion. It Makes the thread more interesting than an echo chamber/twitter feed thread.
Drone warfare is a fascinating/ disturbing new tool that has come to the forefront. Definitely a whites of their eyes phenomenon.
I've not said anything about the morality of war. I'm not at all claiming that Putin isn't the ultimate cause of all the pain and suffering, despite how you may try to twist my words to suit your own agenda.
I'm merely pointing out that taking glee in the inflicting of suffering on someone just because they're your enemy makes you no better than they are. Dehumanising the enemy is the oldest propaganda trick in the book and it seems like you've fallen for it hook, line and sinker.
You're happy to stoop to their level because "they started it"? Maybe it's just me, but I think we should strive to do better.
If someone broke into my house and threatened me & my family, I would do what it took to protect them, even if that involved killing the intruder, however I wouldn't revel in the violence like some people in here seem to, and I certainly wouldn't start to torture and maim them after they were already incapacitated.
The UK is pretty much under equipped in everything. Do we even have a effective long range air defence system that can shot down ballistic or cruise missiles?
Totally acceptable. It's war. That's what I learnt today.
Did you quote the wrong part of my post, because that makes no sense in response to the part you quoted
Absolutely they wouldnt even consider it, not unless the investment is there, they would require set in stone contracts. No company would be set up ready to produce, they would need to produce tooling and production lines and these lines would need to be held at reserve effectively just waiting for the call to produce or constantly run them at a kinda tick over low production at the cost of the government.
Russia infiltrates via the GRU/FSB into middling Russian criminal ultranationalist movement (Azov was somewhat connected to them except they disagreed over Ukraine's existence so split off) in Ukraine to secede because there wasn't enough desire in the populace to do it themselves. Isn't it strange we no longer see any videos about the residents of Donetsk/Luhansk celebrating their glorious revolution? I can't imagine watching fathers/brothers getting hauled off to go mine hunting was particularly enticing for them or that all their children were stolen from them.
The Donetsk People's Republic
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This is an interesting watch if you're interested in the history of the conflict and how it begun.
But the guys who made the ammunition and guns could just wait for all the soy bunker dwellers and take their stuff
