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Originally Posted by Firebot
Russian soldiers are the ones indiscriminately killing and terrorizing civilians.
They are complicit. The person pulling the trigger is just as guilty as the one giving the order.
The only Russian soldiers that shouldn't be killed are the ones that surrender, otherwise they are invading a sovereign country and committing war crimes with the express purpose of killing and committing genocide.
Russian soldiers have a choice, as seen by "Misha". But if they are holding a gun while invading a sovereign country and continue to hold it after being provided a choice to lay their weapons down, they have made a choice as well.
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When you get down to basics, all war is a range of crimes on a spectrum from not severe to extremely severe and cruel. There isn't a single Russian soldier in Ukraine that isn't there by breaking Ukrainian law. At a bare minimum, they are are illegally entering the country (crime) with the intent to destroy Ukrainian property (crime) and intent kill Ukrainian soldiers (crime). Those are just the bare minimum crimes that each foreign soldier is committing and from there, it only gets worse. Humans have a way a separating war from other acts of violence, but the only real difference is who is holding the gavel and not on the actual actions that are taking place.
Just following orders doesn't cut it. The gang member that commits a crime because they are afraid of the gang they are in, is still guilty for committing the crime.