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Originally Posted by jammies
It's possible to acknowledge the necessity of death without celebrating that necessity as if is a positive good.
Stoking negative emotions is how Putin stays in power and starts his wars. Giving him validation by reinforcing the world-view that the world is out to get Russia doesn't help, does it? Explain to me how celebrating dead Russian soldiers hastens the end of the war, or cultivates a permanent end to Russian aggression. It doesn't. It's just a selfish indulgence in righteous denunciation to relieve the feeling of powerlessness engendered by witnessing horrors you have no control over.
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The symbol of a dead Russian soldier in Ukraine is equal to the symbol of a captured one, both worthy of celebration because they represent results that gauge how it's going. The way to hasten an end to this conflict is for your opponents soldiers to be taken out of action as quickly and as many as possible, one of those ways is killing. And by conflict I mean every single act of horror and injustice taken place that wouldn't be possible without Russian soldiers being in Ukraine. The fewer of them alive and fighting in Ukraine, the sooner this ends.
I also hope the brave Russian POWs are being treated above and beyond the Geneva convention rules, treated as guests with dignity and given anything they need. If thousands of Russian POWs go home after a captivity that was friendly and cordial it would pay dividends for a long time. The Russians in captivity deserve nothing less, they did remove their share of the destructive power devastating Ukraine.