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Originally Posted by Plett25
In time, I will have sympathy for the brainwashed Russian conscripts, but only if they are tortured by the realization that they were part of a terrorist organization that committed war crimes.
But for now, the only good Russian soldier is a dead Russian soldier. As long as Putin insists on waging war in Ukraine, there is a binary choice: dead Russian soldiers or dead Ukrainian civilians.
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Russian soldiers dying being the preferable outcome and having sympathy for those dead Russian soldiers aren't mutually exclusive.
In the circumstances increased Russian casualties means that Ukraine is doing well in the war, which is a preferable outcome. That doesn't also mean I don't have sympathy for some teenager from a rural Russian community who's been forced into this. I want Ukrainians to defend themselves and be successful doing so. I wouldn't, for example, want Ukrainians to begin needlessly killing/torturing Russian civilians.