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Making this case public should drop a shadow of doubt onto other Ukraine statements Probably it would be wiser not to brag about this one
by elephantum 9mo ago
Making this case public should drop a shadow of doubt onto other Ukraine statements
Probably it would be wiser not to brag about this one
- stavros 9mo agoCan you elaborate on this?
- jhjkjikh 9mo ago[flagged]
- peterpost2 9mo agoAll is fair in love and war. Seems good to have the russia rethink their system of paying for assasinations.
- Lapsa 9mo agono, all is not fair
- andrewinardeer 9mo agoIn love and war it is, though.
- kelipso 9mo agoNo, war crime laws and the Geneva Conventions have existed for decades.
- phoe-krk 9mo ago"If you offer to pay people to kill our people, we will do our best to make you lose this money" is IMO a pretty fair statement when published. Not only it calls the bluff of depending on mercenaries performing the Russian war machine duties, it might discourage them from doing that in the future, since the Ukrainian side is now going to use that money in defense while paying only the costs of their own covert operation.
- ChrisMarshallNY 9mo agoKnowing how the Russians operate, they might decide to take the money back in skin. They do tend to be pretty vindictive. But it is kind of a funny concept, which is sort of an anodyne for an otherwise, really horrible situation. The Ukraine war is experiencing WWI-level casualties.
- phoe-krk 9mo ago> Knowing how the Russians operate, they might decide to take the money back in skin. >They do tend to be pretty vindictive. I don't think it's any more risky for the Ukrainian military. They've already collectively been on Russia's wanted list for years and it's not like the country might get invaded by the Russian army any harder since it would have already happened long ago.
- ChrisMarshallNY 9mo agoGood point. I was thinking of the individuals, as opposed to the institutions. The big guys will be protected, but the delivery people and analysts won’t be, on the Russian side, and the lower-level folks on the Ukrainian side could be selected for extra attention.
- duxup 9mo ago> take the money back in skin Haven't we already reached that point? They were trying to kill a guy ... There's a war going on you know right?
- ChrisMarshallNY 9mo agoTrue, and if you’d read my follow-up comment, you might understand my point a bit better. But my original comment was unclear, so it’s my bad.
- estimator7292 9mo agoThey are already at war. Russia clearly doesn't have any other hand to play, that's why they're offering a bounty. Ukraine has nothing more to fear from Russia, because Russia doesn't have anything else to threaten them with apart from nukes, which also is not an option that will give them victory.