Ukraine - Russia Conflict

What have I been hypocritic on?
About war crimes, 1962 cuba crisis, etc .
What do you think of this?
How much corruption do you think was involved in the deals?

That must now be clarified. We urgently need to investigate and get to the bottom of it. At which points and when were our country’s Russia policy marred by actual corruption, when by mere incompetence, and when by short-term or cynical self-interest? We need to understand how it came to this. We have done business over the last twenty years that allowed us to be infiltrated by Russia and China and become dependent on them. It certainly wasn't only corruption, but we need to determine where corruption took place. It’s no secret in international intelligence circles that German corruption and incompetence have played a role in our being infiltrated like this. Look at the Nordstream pipelines alone: a former East German security operative (Mathias Warnig, editor's note) shapes German energy policy with a Russian state-owned corporation. It’s inconceivable.
 
About war crimes, 1962 cuba crisis, etc .
Which war crimes specifically?

1962 was actual nukes being moved into Cuba at the height of the Cold War when intentions were far more murky. Having a dictatorship move nukes next door is very much not the same as a democracy next door wishing to join a trading bloc of other democracies. And also 60 years ago.

As a marketplace, the US didn't give a sh*t about Cuba, why would it? Ukraine is about two main things for Russia:

1. Ukraine joining EU and diminishing their commercial sphere of influence.

2. Ukraine being in a position to compete with them on oil and gas contracts with the EU.

If you were to add anything, it would be a desire to link to Transnistria. The only reason NATO factors in is because once a country joins NATO Russia can't invade it anymore, not because of any threat posed by NATO to Russia.

The reason I call out jetray and co. on hypocrisy is because they've spent decades complaining about historic British imperialism, only to completely ignore Russian imperialism both past and present.
 
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You said bombing/destroying power/Civilian infrastructure in Ukraine is war crime.
However it was done in Iraq, Syria and Yemen too
Actually I said that destroying power infrastructure is not technically a war crime but destroying water treatment plants is. I still remember looking it up first, this was the link I posted with my response.


That said, people in Syria, Iraq and Yemen will not freeze to death without heating, or even be cold. It's winter in Qatar now for instance and temperatures are 20-28degC. In European winters temperatures sometimes drop below -20degC.




And the US is not bothered about them hitting targets in Russia anymore following Putin's attacks on Ukraine's electricity supply.
 
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You said bombing/destroying power/Civilian infrastructure in Ukraine is war crime.
However it was done in Iraq, Syria and Yemen too
As an additional point, whilst it is not technically a war crime to cut off electricity, heating I'm not sure about. Struggling to find anything on that. Electricity is used for military purposes as well as civilian (which is why it's not technically a war crime), but heating not so much.

When it comes to civilian infrastructure, you have to be able to justify the military purpose of the attack. For instance, with the Kerch bridge the military purpose was obvious, to c0ck-block Russian logistics and the movement of munitions, supplies, armour and artillery to the front. For electricity you could argue that the enemy was using electricity for C4ISR tasks and for the production of weapons/munitions in factories. For heating what would be the military purpose though? And in every case it has to be balanced against the impact on civilians by law. I.e. is causing military personnel mild discomfort worth endangering the lives of thousands of elderly people and young children as temperatures fall into double-digit negatives during the night?