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        1 year ago

        This isn’t Dungeons & Dragons, it’s poor bastards on both sides. They might as well call them rats; their intention is to dehumanise. Most of the mines are likely defensive and were laid by Ukraine anyway.

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            1 year ago

            Well, yeah. That doesn’t mean I support the invasion. But the human cost isn’t negated by the politics of the leadership, is it. They aren’t orcs, they’re humans - poor, young, and conscripted. Why people take pleasure from a teenager bleeding out while he calls for his mother just because he’s on the wrong side, I will never understand. Unless he’s literally just been firing at you, there’s really no excuse for that kind of inhumanity.