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It’s perfectly reasonable to call them a terrorist state if they’re actively encouraging war crimes against civilians.

rjzzleep 4y ago
Which even the UN has had to admit Ukraine shares the blame on[1]. Not only that, the Human Rights chief of Ukraine stepped down and subsequently admitted that she invented a lot of human rights violations[2]. It's actually amusing that the UN complained about the Ukrainian shelling of a maternity ward in June with most reports saying that it was Russians doing, with very few correcting this to stating it was in fact the Ukrainians[3]. Here's the Washington Post saying that Ukraine placed their fighters in civilian buildings therefore enabling attacks on civilian infrastructure[4] as early as March 28th [1] https://news.yahoo.com/un-says-ukraine-bears-share-041554667.html https://news.yahoo.com/un-says-ukraine-bears-share-041554667... [2] https://www.ibtimes.sg/lyudmila-denisova-disgraced-ombudswoman-fired-by-ukraine-parliament-admits-she-lied-about-rapes-65119 https://www.ibtimes.sg/lyudmila-denisova-disgraced-ombudswom... [3] https://blog.tagesschau.de/2022/06/16/fehler-in-der-tagesschau-am-13-juni-2022/ https://blog.tagesschau.de/2022/06/16/fehler-in-der-tagessch... [4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/28/ukraine-kyiv-russia-civilians/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/28/ukraine-kyiv...
- oneoff786 4y ago
  The UN consensus has been very clear. Russia is singularly responsible for the war, and has committed numerous war crimes. Including many, many attacks on positions that are civilian only. And forcing Ukrainians to join the Russian army as canon fodder. And encouraging mass rape. And stealing whatever isn’t nailed down. And storing munitions in an active nuclear power plant. And attacking evacuation corridors they promised to allow. Ukraine is not perfect, but it’s not even close to comparable. Your post history has a clear Russian lean to it. So, whatever. I presume it’s pointless to talk.
- saturn_vk 4y ago
  Your #3 link seems to be talking about a market, not a maternity ward. Did you give a wrong link by mistake?
sschueller 4y ago
In that case you might as well classify the US as a terrorist state as well. Continues dronning of innocent people doesn't make it OK when you call it the "war" on terror.
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- oneoff786 4y ago
  Whataboutism at its finest. The US drone policy is very aggressive. But it’s multiple orders of magnitude less than the scale of what Russia is trying to do now, which is flagrant genocide. But we’re not discussing the US so let’s get back to the terrorist state of Russia.
  - vasac 4y ago
    It's not just drones - US leveled cities too, like Raqqa, or started wars based on fabricated evidence that killed more people than current war in Ukraine. p.s. exposing hypocrisy isn't whataboutism.
    - oneoff786 4y ago
      That’s really great. But we’re talking about the terrorist state of Russia here.
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mardifoufs 4y ago
So you don't really disagree with the parent comment then. Unless you are denying French war crimes in Algeria and Africa
- oneoff786 4y ago
  They said Russia is not a terrorist state. I disagree with them. I don’t really give a shit about French war crimes 70 years ago. That’s not a gotcha, it’s just a shitty whataboutism, and not even a particularly relevant one.
elenaferrantes 4y ago
You mean like this : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_... ? Or maybe this : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima... ?
- oneoff786 4y ago
  Those are immense human tragedies but they’re not the same. Both of these examples have significant debate on whether they were justified. Perhaps you believe they were not. There is no such debate around the missile strikes on shopping malls far removed from the front, or bombing civilian evacuation routes your promised to permit. Or deporting thousands of children to your country. And again, whataboutism is not helpful here. The discussion is on Russia.
  - elenaferrantes 4y ago
    USA _and_ russia always justify civilian bombings claiming they aimed at military targets first. Do you think USA or russia will ever admit they happily roasted babies alive on purpose ?
    - oneoff786 4y ago
      The difference is that Russia’s MO is to level cities and kill every single person they can. The US is far from perfect, but this is not what they do. Whataboutism is not relevant here
polski-g 4y ago
Terrorism is be definition non state activities. If a state is doing it, it can't be terrorism.
- oneoff786 4y ago
  In some definitions sure.

Which even the UN has had to admit Ukraine shares the blame on[1]. Not only that, the Human Rights chief of Ukraine stepped down and subsequently admitted that she invented a lot of human rights violations[2]. It's actually amusing that the UN complained about the Ukrainian shelling of a maternity ward in June with most reports saying that it was Russians doing, with very few correcting this to stating it was in fact the Ukrainians[3]. Here's the Washington Post saying that Ukraine placed their fighters in civilian buildings therefore enabling attacks on civilian infrastructure[4] as early as March 28th [1] https://news.yahoo.com/un-says-ukraine-bears-share-041554667.html https://news.yahoo.com/un-says-ukraine-bears-share-041554667... [2] https://www.ibtimes.sg/lyudmila-denisova-disgraced-ombudswoman-fired-by-ukraine-parliament-admits-she-lied-about-rapes-65119 https://www.ibtimes.sg/lyudmila-denisova-disgraced-ombudswom... [3] https://blog.tagesschau.de/2022/06/16/fehler-in-der-tagesschau-am-13-juni-2022/ https://blog.tagesschau.de/2022/06/16/fehler-in-der-tagessch... [4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/28/ukraine-kyiv-russia-civilians/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/28/ukraine-kyiv...

oneoff786 4y ago
The UN consensus has been very clear. Russia is singularly responsible for the war, and has committed numerous war crimes. Including many, many attacks on positions that are civilian only. And forcing Ukrainians to join the Russian army as canon fodder. And encouraging mass rape. And stealing whatever isn’t nailed down. And storing munitions in an active nuclear power plant. And attacking evacuation corridors they promised to allow. Ukraine is not perfect, but it’s not even close to comparable. Your post history has a clear Russian lean to it. So, whatever. I presume it’s pointless to talk.
saturn_vk 4y ago
Your #3 link seems to be talking about a market, not a maternity ward. Did you give a wrong link by mistake?

sschueller 4y ago

In that case you might as well classify the US as a terrorist state as well. Continues dronning of innocent people doesn't make it OK when you call it the "war" on terror.

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oneoff786 4y ago
Whataboutism at its finest. The US drone policy is very aggressive. But it’s multiple orders of magnitude less than the scale of what Russia is trying to do now, which is flagrant genocide. But we’re not discussing the US so let’s get back to the terrorist state of Russia.
- vasac 4y ago
  It's not just drones - US leveled cities too, like Raqqa, or started wars based on fabricated evidence that killed more people than current war in Ukraine. p.s. exposing hypocrisy isn't whataboutism.
  - oneoff786 4y ago
    That’s really great. But we’re talking about the terrorist state of Russia here.

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mardifoufs 4y ago

So you don't really disagree with the parent comment then. Unless you are denying French war crimes in Algeria and Africa

oneoff786 4y ago
They said Russia is not a terrorist state. I disagree with them. I don’t really give a shit about French war crimes 70 years ago. That’s not a gotcha, it’s just a shitty whataboutism, and not even a particularly relevant one.

elenaferrantes 4y ago

You mean like this : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_... ? Or maybe this : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima... ?

oneoff786 4y ago
Those are immense human tragedies but they’re not the same. Both of these examples have significant debate on whether they were justified. Perhaps you believe they were not. There is no such debate around the missile strikes on shopping malls far removed from the front, or bombing civilian evacuation routes your promised to permit. Or deporting thousands of children to your country. And again, whataboutism is not helpful here. The discussion is on Russia.
- elenaferrantes 4y ago
  USA _and_ russia always justify civilian bombings claiming they aimed at military targets first. Do you think USA or russia will ever admit they happily roasted babies alive on purpose ?
  - oneoff786 4y ago
    The difference is that Russia’s MO is to level cities and kill every single person they can. The US is far from perfect, but this is not what they do. Whataboutism is not relevant here

polski-g 4y ago

Terrorism is be definition non state activities. If a state is doing it, it can't be terrorism.

oneoff786 4y ago
In some definitions sure.