Tag: war crimes
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Russia tortures POWs. India and China don’t care
Ukrainian prisoners freed from Russian camps describe cruelty that no country can ignore. Their accounts come from penal colonies deep inside Russia, especially one in Mordovia. The place does not function as a prison. It functions as a torture site. These men describe beatings, humiliation, electric shocks, and deliberate neglect. Their stories force a hard…
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict: How to retain objectivity
I do not cry at funerals (etc.) because I suffer from flattened emotions. I have no ancestral pain, no religious loyalty, no emotional trigger in this war. That does not mean I cannot choose a side. I can. And I do – slightly the Israeli one. But I do it rationally. I weigh risks, intentions,…
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Will Putin surpass the US presidents in death toll?
We have the free, democratic, pure, clean, freedom of speech US with presidents who wouldn’t hurt a fly. No death toll. Then we have a dictator-like evil Vladimir Putin who is a war criminal par excellence. While Putin is really what he is, I want to make the case that the US is worse in…
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How are the US and Russia similar?
The heading cannot be more counterintuitive. No freedom of speech, arbitrary arrests, unbelievable corruption, authoritarian regime. But still – how are the US and Russia similar? In my article, you will find similarities, yet please note this: They may not be proportionally the same, even though they can be found on a huge level in…
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Helping will kill you. WW2 recollections and how to be better
Imagine German women, men malnourished, extremely thirsty, wounded, crawling on the soil. What would you do now? Call emergency services immediately and provide immediate CPR if needed. Giving them food, and water. Not at the end of WW2 in the former Czechoslovakia territory. Helping will kill you. Well, it is 2024. I hate nationalism, it…
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The US super-rich groups may be good. But at what cost?
The super-rich families ruling the US, which is something evidence-based, may act to benefit the US citizens. I guess you think I have gone mad again. No, the US super-rich groups may really be useful. In this article, I will present what are the benefits and negatives of the ruling forces of the US. When…
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When we kill millions. Our heroes: Fidel Castro, Obama, J. F. Kennedy, Che Guevara, Havel, Mandela
We all know them. They are known for good causes. But given the fact they are just animals, we should have or could expect animalistic behavior. So given the classical (common) morality, they all are failures because they sinned to a high degree. One highly prominent editor-in-chief of some unnamed magazine proclaimed: “So we have…
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Nas mnogo? Do Americans cherish life the same way as Russians do?
I was met with plenty of anecdotal evidence that Russian people have a huge disregard for human life: gulags, famines, extrajudicial killings, the Russian Civil War, 2014 Russo-Ukrainian War. They used to say “nas mnogo” (there are plenty of us) which doesn’t require any comment further. One division after division lost without any cry. If…
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2014 Russo-Ukrainian war is not a black-and-white issue
Few people will tell you the 2014 Russo-Ukrainian war is a complex issue. People stand on either of two sides. If you look at the history, it is full of Russo-Ukrainian wars so using time series, it is something we should expect and it is not an aberration. The West wants Ukraine, and Russia respectively…
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Guns N’ Roses are right. Every war is a Civil War!
Every war is to the detriment of each citizen were the ruling governments acting according to the best moral rules (if we pretend that common morality is something good). Guns N’ Roses are highlighting the ever-lasting form of every war. Look at your young men fighting Look at your women crying Look at your young…