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No, starting a civil war is exactly the wrong thing to do if you want to protect the civilian population.
by ceilingcorner 5y ago
No, starting a civil war is exactly the wrong thing to do if you want to protect the civilian population.
- DyslexicAtheist 5y agothat's pretty hyperbolic. it's not "starting a civil war" it's leveling the playing field against those who are already brutalizing the population.
- baybal2 5y agoYou don't protect civilians by letting a mad genocidal regime mow down unarmed people with machineguns. The civil war is already de-facto going. People who tell to do nothing make peoples' of Belarus suffer in agony for longer. Look at Yugoslavia. You would've been still seeing Milosevic's smiling face from TV if not NATO, and EU not only arming Bosnians, but forcing the conflict, and bringing it to a boiling point. Only then the crazed genocidal generals started to actually feel... fear. And it was it what allowed for a relatively bloodless ouster of Milosevic in 97.