Russia needs to be dismantled military and ideally should be denuclearised they have proven they cannot play at the table with adults.
This is a rough war for everyone, but its a war that unfortunately needs to happen, Russia must have a decisive defeat or they will continue behaving how they have been for years now which is bad for the entire world.
Now our gang is fighting a proxy war with another nuclear gang because we cant deal with the result of a democratic vote to join Russia in a place that speaks exclusively Russian.
And we're being asked to freeze to death out of sympathy.
The Russians aren't soldiers like the west expects.
Im sure your opinion would be different if it was your friends and family be executed and raped.
In Yemen we dont even really try to justify the war crimes we just ignore them and keep sending weapons in Saudi's war of aggression.
The war crimes committed by Azov since 2014 we are equally indifferent to because hey, it's Russia and those Nazis are good fighters.
This war is purely a clash of empires. NATO are happy to discard all of the principles we purport to represent AND sacrifice the wellbeing of all Europeans even if all we do is give Russia a black eye.
This war is purely Russias, it is a war of aggression designed to wipe out a cultural, a people, its genocide.
That Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine is unsurprising they already did this before during the USSR with the holodomor.
Russia is solely responsible for this war.
It's lucky that a lot of Europe is happy to sacrifice both its weapons and some of its economy to stop the authoritarian beast just like they did in WW2.
Genocide has quite a high bar. Biden's opinion is currently that what Russia is doing doesnt meet it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_in_the_2022_Ru... just pick anyone of them.
> Genocide has quite a high bar. Biden's opinion is currently that what Russia is doing doesnt meet it.
Genocide is certainly a high bar and the Russians are certainly doing their very best to meet it, its arguable if they are meeting it but per the definition of the UN they are easily meeting it.
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
Even without anything else Russia is already doing.
> Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
That one is notable because she had zero evidence and said she was doing it to ensure Ukraine got more weapons.
Wikipedia refers to her accusations but leaves the part out where she was fired for doing that.
Your team (Azov) committed rape all the way back in 2014, as documented by OHCHR: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/UA/Ukraine_14th_HRM...
Why did you need evidence anyway according to you mass rape is a standard part of war no?. So we can expect the Russian armed forces to mass rape in every war yes?.
I'll wait.
This kind of aggressive know-nothing 'naivety on the warpath' is all too common at the moment. It might get us all killed.