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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Are individual Russian soldiers being forced to rape, commit, atrocities, steal belongs and I am sure as this is unpacked there will be more crimes found?
Each Ivan is making a decision.
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I am not sticking up for any Russian solider doing any of those types of things at all. I am firmly not on Team Russia. If anything, I have always been stunned at the lack of firm response from the entire world in regard to dealing with Putin.
What I am trying to illustrate is the human level. Say you and I were hypothetically forced into battle from our Canadian government. We have absolutely zero choice in this matter to go and fight against our enemies. It really becomes fight for survival, its either us or them. It's the reality of war.
If I was killed in combat for the Canadian Forces and you lost 3 limbs while wiping your ass, our families are mourning and dealing with the consequences, the human element is some expression of some sympathy in my mind.
Russia has zero business being in Ukraine and millions of people are affected by this disaster. Everybody is paying the price.
I used that example of Canadian military being injured and killed in Afghanistan, to us what happened to them was tragic. They are protecting our freedoms. To the Afghans and those who were active in fighting the various countries who sent military there, the question is "What the hell are you doing here?"