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The fact the NYT is reporting this makes me think it’s joever

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Damn, that last line. The PTSD is palpable.

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This is the best summary I could come up with:


Hours after a battle in eastern Ukraine in August, a wounded and unarmed Russian soldier crawled through a nearly destroyed trench, seeking help from his captors, a unit of international volunteers led by an American.

The shooting of the unarmed, wounded Russian soldier is one of several killings that have unsettled the Chosen Company, one of the best-known units of international troops fighting on behalf of Ukraine.

In a second episode, a Chosen member lobbed a grenade at and killed a surrendering Russian soldier who had his hands raised, video footage reviewed by The Times shows.

In a third episode, Chosen members boasted in a group chat about killing Russian prisoners of war during a mission in October, text messages show.

A Greek soldier known as Zeus was at the center of all three episodes — tossing the grenade and, Mr. Grosse says, firing at the wounded Russian in the trench and bragging about another kill.

But in the United States military, a video showing the killing of a surrendering soldier, regardless of the circumstances, would prompt an immediate investigation, said Rachel E. VanLandingham, a professor at Southwestern Law School and a former U.S. Air Force lawyer.


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Justifying war crimes - the American way

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Listen, Russians are literally Orks, tho. They’re not humans. You can kill as many as you want and it’s fine.

If you think this take is hot, wait till you hear what we think about Palestinians, Mexicans, and anyone from Detroit.

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Hey did you know that, under the US military’s Code of Conduct, captured servicemembers are required to use any and all means at their disposal to escape and return to friendly forces?

This is how soldiers are trained in all militaries, and yet it is still a violation of the Geneva Conventions to murder prisoners of war.

For more information, do some research on SERE

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Umm, what if you could stop people from escaping without executing them?!

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Nazis doing warcrimes. Shocker!

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Then how come all those other governments can seem to organize a simple photo op without nazi SS symbols?

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Next thing you’ll tell me Hitler got into power because he got voted in lmao

Why should I give a shit about the parliament when they exert their power differently?

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Bold move using whataboutism for countries that don’t have national holidays for the nazi leader who was in charge of the holocaust in their regions

Extremely appropriate that a “Mr Lemmy” is a nazi apologist.

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lol. You got it all wrong ;-)

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Isn’t it literally illegal to be a Nazi in Germany?

No surprises for the Fr*nch though, read up on the nightmare shit they did in Algeria.

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Isn’t it literally illegal to be a Nazi in Germany?

As always, it’s not illegal when you’re in the police while you’re doing this shit

The German justice system has reported the discovery of Nazi symbols and child pornography in messages exchanged by police officers in a private group chat.

Five police officers, aged 22 to 25 and from three different districts, were involved in sharing the illegal content, according to the public prosecutor in charge of the investigation.

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I mean it’s meant to be illegal in Austria, but I still saw a fuckload of Nazis when I went to a football game there.

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The Ukrainians?

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This is one of the US’s partners in the war:

America loves Nazis, whether they’re Ukrainian Neonazis or Zionazis.

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Assumes facts not in evidence.

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Killing surrendering prisoners is a war crime.

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Yeah, but they weren’t Germans from the 1930s, so the war crimes are fine

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