Ukraine Conflict - In the grim darkness of the near future, there is only war!

[Malcador]

They just need to call it "enhanced interrogation", and it'll be fine.

[Zoraptor]

9 hours ago, Elerond said:

Assassination of generals happens in every war

Yep, and personally I wouldn't call it terrorism either, despite the method. That does mean it isn't terrorism when Russia does it either though.

9 hours ago, Elerond said:

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1141417

That seems pretty standard, for war, and the complete lack of any statistics beyond an age range is telling. That always suggests the absolute number is low.

You'd have been better off quoting their most recent report about sexual mistreatment of POWs. Even then, the same thing is happening right now in Israel, and was very well documented as happening with the US as well. So there's an excellent case that's just par for the course for warfare but being highlighted here primarily because it's the bad guys doing it.

Most of the claims of rape being systemic still resolve down to one single Ukrainian official- who got sacked for lying too outrageously.