from user224@lemmy.sdf.org to world@lemmy.world on 20 Jun 19:39
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37103062
Better photo available here: english.nv.ua/…/ukraine-begins-treating-soldier-s…
The words, written in Russian, were branded into the right side of the body alongside the letter “Z,” a symbol of the full-scale invasion that many Ukrainians and critics of the war liken to the Nazi swastika.
According to the United Nations, more than 95% of freed Ukrainian POWs have said they were tortured during their captivity. Survivors have recounted harrowing treatment, including being brutally beaten, electrocuted, and forced to endure painful stress positions.
Many have faced mock executions, threats of rape or death, and were denied basic medical care. Some were left without food, locked in isolation for weeks, or permanently marked with burns or scars.
For Turkevych and his team, seeing the scars left by Russian captivity on Ukrainian POWs has become a routine part of their work.
[…] Turkevych and his team have treated several released defenders bearing swastika-shaped scars, some even on their foreheads […]
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Inhuman monsters
The only way to defeat inhumanity is with an inhumane level of violence.
They are willfully subhuman.
That kind of othering is exactly how they justify their own genocide.
I think that might be a misreading, they have no humanity in deed, not in essence. They weren’t born subhuman, they are choosing to be.
I’m not going to give the genociders the benefit of the doubt, at least.
And the incredible thing is, they could CHOOSE to be human again. At any time. They could just willfully have their humanity back and not be subject to such repercussions.
But they won’t.
One causes more genocide, one ends it. These are not the same
The solution to genocide is not a bigger genocide.
The solution to genocide is not wasting your clearly quite valuable time attempting to twist random internet comments into something you can argue about.
Not subhuman, that would imply that they’re lesser humans, of which there is no such thing.
They aren’t human at all, not anymore. They forfit their human once they took part in this project of genocide.
These demented husks, which can only take pleasure in the suffering of people, are what’s left of the humans they once were. They’re already dead.
Insisting that I treat inhuman murderers with humanity is a nonstarter.
I know what they want to do to me and the people I love.
I will die fighting them before I give them an ounce of compassion.
I didn’t suggest you should give them compassion, my words would imply they don’t deserve any at all.
I’m a hard anti-spiritualist, but to the extent that I can accept the concept of a human spirit of soul at all, as a sort of metaphor, I can declare with absolute conviction that those skinwalkers have no soul to speak of.
We must not yield to them, for the sake of our own humanity, and humanity at large.
I mean you’d bomb them to save lives right and if someone tricked them into walking into a jail cell you would lock it? You wouldn’t rape them to death if you had a cabinet full of lethal injection drugs… So you’re being better than them by treating them with no less than the minimal baseline of humanity right? (Or you completely disagree or partially with my attempt at getting a little more granular there)
And so the cycle continues
Clearly not enough violence was used.
See Japan for example of where sufficient violence was used, the cycle did not continue.
It can work I guess but I think there are more instances of it not doing so. The results don’t warrant the price.
I’ve also tried to appeal to sense at times. People are angry and they think we are naïve.
Japan worked because of what happened as they rebuilt the country after the violence. They were lucky the US needed a counter to the communist movement spreading in Asia. Post-WW1 Germany is a strong counterpoint example that shows violence begets violence.
The russian state should be destroyed.
Are you implying that a nation state doesn’t have an inherent right to exist, regardless of the form and manner in which it operates? Are you antisemitic?
Sounds good, bro.
Not if they’re fucking evil as fuck
Wat
Satire based on Israel’s rhethoric I’m assuming.
You win. I lose for attempting satire on the internet without using /s
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Here, you lost this: \
stop i can only get so erect
if any nukes are dropped they should be directed at the Kremlin
That’s fucking evil.
Bro JESUS CHRIST what the FUCK
Putin is fine with this PR? (Public Relations)
He personally ordered to target civilians, bomb hospitals and schools, why would be bothered by this?
Even if this were a terrible criminal, if you are capable of carving political statements into another human’s flesh, there is something seriously wrong with you.
I agree with you… but
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c7a40e41-1972-4bcd-8de5-e89e38555610.png">
That is just as bad.
No, it really isn’t. Should it be done? No, of course not. But permanently scarring a Nazi as a Nazi is not the same as scarring “glory to Russia” into someone defending their homeland from greedy imperialism.
“Glory” my ass, Russia is rotten to the core and utter depravity like this only makes that all the more apparent. I can’t believe this is the state of the world today, bunch of stupid monkeys running the show.