> I suppose we might speculate that, possibly, hypothetically, the reason the Russians are committing war crimes in Libya is because the Libyan army was annihil

> I suppose we might speculate that, possibly, hypothetically, the reason the Russians are committing war crimes in Libya is because the Libyan army was annihilated around 2011 by a helpful excursion by US/UK/etc troops onto Libyan soil. Or we can speculate that the reason is the modern worldview of the Russian power as the zero-sum game with the west, where each problem delivered to the West is Russia's win, and excursions of troops of the other side is a helpful pretense.