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Originally Posted by Barnet Flame
Stopping bombing everything and everyone where ever they are, even the places the bombers send them to will certainly save lives. If you think taking action that indiscriminately destroys everyone and everything amongst an entire populous, is a solution, you are no better than the evil you claim you’re trying to eradicate.
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I was a part for the country that started the war. The Ukrainian one. I saw Russians lining up in Zs, handing out subpoenas, subduing protesters. I saw literally thousands of normal, usual people, either going to the war, or doing their part of supporting the war. And I was wondering why they are doing it. And, more importantly, what could stop them. Putin us just a man. He does not have supernatural ability to hypnotize people into obeying him. Yet millions act as if they were hypnotized. It was horrible, and it was such behavior by people of Russia, rather than Putin, that led to massacre of innocent Ukrainians. Not just civilians, because you know, Ukrainian soldiers are also innocent.
And I thought, how to counter it?
And after witnessing the country that starts the war with my own eyes, and thinking about it long and hard, because it change my whole life, I understood one thing.
To stop a war, to prevent future wars, you need to put the onus on people, rather than on a dictator. On civilians, rather than on military. You need to make ordinary civilians scared that their country will try to attack someone. You can't let them hide in the bunker of "I'm just an innocent civilian, brainwashed by dictator". Russians would have topple Putin themselves, long ago, if they knew that attack on Ukraine would result in some indiscriminate bombing of Moscow. Dictators are not superhumans, they can't hypnotize people. People follow dictators by choice. They are scared of dictator's police, but that police is made up of ordinary people, who joined by choice.
With the current system, if a country starts a war, only its leadership is responsible. That's the flaw. That's why we have wars. The whole country must be held responsible. Because if they know they are to be punished for their government starting the war, they would disobey the dictator. They would topple him because they would be scared of being carpet bombed more, than being scared of dictator's police.
Examples of this? Germany and Japan. Millions of Germans followed Hitler. Then they saw their cities bombed, country occupied and divided. The whole country, not just Nazi leadership, was punished for their crimes. And never tried to start a war ever since. They are pacifists now. They hate wars. Japan attacked USA. People on the streets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, along with other towns, were cheering for the success of Perl Harbor attack. It never dawned on them, that it's them, ordinary people, who will be held responsible for the attack. They thought they are just innocent civilians, but they were nuked for what their country did. Now they learled the lesson and are the most pacifist country in the region. They never let warmongers run their country again.
Similarly, if Gazans knew that this is what they will get for letting Hamas run the country, they would have rid Hamas themselves, instead of cheering for naked raped Jews being paraded on Gaza streets.