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What shooting-up an ambulance looks like:

https://video.nostr.build/fe6df79ee76ebcbaf1c6b45f49a501ae0f043f7e776032dfb78ea4f73059e714.mp4

War crimes are not crimes because they are cruel and brutal.

(All war is cruel and brutal.)

War crimes are crimes because they are, also, counterproductive for achieving normal State strategic goals.

Attacking undefended ambulances and hospitals, whether with guided missiles, 120mm HEAT, 40mm autocannon fire, or merely automatic rifles like this time, gains zero military advantage, but motivates the enemy to fight on against your side regardless of costs because you are clearly monsters.

This is why all the (mostly-evil) governments that signed the Geneva Conventions agreed not to do it. And don't. Unless they're already committing genocide and just want to impress their own people (and others) with their power.

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zeph 1y ago

what will the propagation of imagery of war crimes via the internet to countless viewers do to the populations of complicit nations? do you speculate it will break resistance by a kind of inoculation to despair and powerlessness or increase it?

zeph 1y ago

I haven’t read this yet, will put it here for later https://www.commentary.org/articles/susan-sontag/the-imagination-of-disaster/

Low Information Voter 1y ago

Interesting, and the writer is very well researched in his subject material (B-movies!).

But I didn't find a meaningful criticism that is not also true of "The Epic of Gilgamesh", or the Mahabharata...

Low Information Voter 1y ago

Israel is closer to being a democracy than Australia, or anything in the EU.

There are many Israelis out here right now, draft-dodging or just afraid. I don't doubt most support land theft and genocide (democracy), but they also don't want to pay any personal or even social price in return for the fruits.

By spreading awareness, we increase the social costs of voting for monsters. There are other, institutional, tracks we could and should pursue, but raised eyebrows and sharp questions are "permissionless".

jerrud 1y ago

Terrorists need medical attention just like anybody else, to see it prevented in this way breaks my heart.

Low Information Voter 1y ago

Tell us how you feel again, son. Louder, for the people at the back.

They have a right to know what walks among us.

jerrud 1y ago

Bro I literally had to put my human shield down to type that comment. A little more respect, please.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1y ago

"anybody else" takes way more energy to type than "children," unless you think the 21st century has people making it all the way to adulthood without supporting terrorism in both beliefs and actions

EchDel 1y ago

Israel must fall.