A senior United Nations relief official said that Russia has so far declined requests to help residents of Russian-controlled areas of southern Ukraine impacted by the breach of the Kakhkova dam.

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There goes the UN trying to interfere in Russia’s genocide of innocent people again. No wonder conservatives and fascists hate the UN so much.

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You think the UN “doesn’t work” because you have absolutely no idea what it’s supposed to do.

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What is the realistic alternative?

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can they just stop being assholes for 5 minutes?

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I think for them to stop being assholes they’d need to feel the tiniest bit of empathy first and if the last year of relentless cruelty has shown us anything the Russian government has no empathy whatsoever.

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::looks at Russian history:: Nope, not going to happen.

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The problem isn’t the Russian government; this brutality and callousness has been going on for hundreds of years. The problem is Russian culture that keeps producing these governments

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Maybe the Russian culture produced many such governments, but the current Russian government is still to blame for the current atrocities. I wouldn’t blame the culture for those, since the culture has also produce people who were against that war, but were powerless against the dictatorship.

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They’ve passed the war crime event horizon. In their view, why bother caring about it anymore?

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I wonder what it would take for UN peacekeepers to get involved. How bad does the situation need to get?

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UN peacekeepers famously did not get involved when the Serbs massacred Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in their own “safe zones”. I don’t know if there are counter examples since then that demonstrate peacekeepers actually keeping peace, but that was the worst situation imaginable, and they still didn’t get involved and just let it happen.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53346759

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You should familiarise yourself with the Rwandan Genocide for a good example of how useless they can be… I shudder just thinking about it…

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Makes sense, it would be a major risk to accidentally shoot a UN representative, while you are shooting on people in need of aid. /s

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Cartoonishly evil.

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