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Originally Posted by Pointman
That's the most puzzling thing for me. Russian has used that dirty banned hellis much talked about nightmarish chemical weapons. I mean, when people were reporting Bucha and other atrocities, everyone was like "it will be even worse if Russia will use chemical weapons", "if Russians use nuclear weapons, all bets are off". And the result is 3 wounded guys.
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The term "chemical weapons" is very broad. When people talk about, they picture the most extreme cases like with what Saddam Hussein pulled on the Kurds. Technically tear gas is a chemical weapon, one that law enforcement across the world uses occasionally but no one refers to it as a "chemical weapon" in those scenarios. I am not sure what the Russian military used in this case, but it sounds like it was something less drastic than what most people think of right away when they hear it.
The more worrisome thing is how much the line gets pushed until the types of chemicals used do become extreme, and especially if it gets deployed in civilian areas.