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One county's freedom fighter is another country's terrorist. How you view these participants depends entirely on who's side you are standing with. Unfortunately for the west, much of the rest of the world either doesn't care, or has no choice but to turn a blind eye in order to do business with Russia to get cheap commodities.
This also has to be troubling news for the WNBA player that is still locked up in Russia.
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If you are gonna do this don't give up. Why go in and then surrender?
Because they didn't realize Russia was going to be handing out death sentences for POWs. This is a new development meant to discourage mercenaries from getting involved. Mercenaries consider risk vs reward... Well, now the risks are much, much higher than originally thought. Now many are just going to say it's not worth it.
If they were wearing uniforms of the Ukrainian forces, then this would indeed be a violation of international law at the very least and at the most a war crime.
If they were wearing uniforms of the Ukrainian forces, then this would indeed be a violation of international law at the very least and at the most a war crime.
They can bring charges against Russia, but what good would it do if Europe is not willing to stand up to Putin? What would come of such charges if they have no teeth? Putin has already addressed the criticism towards what he is doing in Ukraine by saying the USA is guilty of war crimes. He's just going to respond the same way if Russia is criticized for killing mercenaries, or terrorists as they describe them.
And we are obviously way past the point of getting anywhere with sanctions. They are more punishing to the west than they are to Putin. The west is running out of tricks, and the conventional war in Ukraine is not working out the way the west was hoping.
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No one in the game that really means it is going to be captured. Fight to the death.
It's difficult to fight to the death when Mariupol which you were defending is now rubble, and your unit has been destroyed along with it, whilst you don't have any food or ammunition left, and are unable to escape Russian forces which have you surrounded.
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