@kevcvs57 saidAs hard as it is for a child like you to believe (one who has assigned "white hats" and "black hats" to the sides in a war), even the supposed "good guys" in a war can and do commit war crimes.
lol yeah trying captured soldiers caught defending their sovereign territory from a brutal invasion force.
You should apply for the prosecutors job IvanNo1
@no1marauder saidThere’s only one child having a constant hissy fit on this subject, your smarmy lawyer mask has slipped and the idiot is out and staggering around constantly bumping into reality.
As hard as it is for a child like you to believe (one who has assigned "white hats" and "black hats" to the sides in a war), even the supposed "good guys" in a war can and do commit war crimes.
The only defence this soldier has is one of mitigation, he’s already confessed to the killing and it’s been corroborated by another captured soldier as has his claim that he was ordered directly by his commanding officer to shoot the civilian, which may have caused him to fear for his own life, coupled with the fact that he was a conscript and his age I’m sure The Hague would take these facts into account.
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@kevcvs57 saidThe "trial" was a farce. As will presumably be the "trials" of the Mariupol defenders: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/05/23/pro-russia-separatist-leader-threatens-international-tribunal-for-azovstal-defenders-a77768
There’s only one child having a constant hissy fit on this subject, your smarmy lawyer mask has slipped and the idiot is out and staggering around constantly bumping into reality.
The only defence this soldier has is one of mitigation, he’s already confessed to the killing and it’s been corroborated by another captured soldier as has his claim that he was ordered directly b ...[text shortened]... the fact that he was a conscript and his age I’m sure The Hague would take these facts into account.
I would not support using the Hague as it is in a country which has aggressively chosen sides in this war. A new tribunal in a truly neutral site, preferably in the Third World (symbolically ending Western domination of these types of proceedings), would be best. Somewhere in India or Nigeria, with judges picked from impartial nations and the defendants entitled to the full panoply of due process rights, would be nice.
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@no1marauder saidReally you think India is neutral? Given how dependent it is on Russian arms sales and the tightrope it walks between opposing Chinese territorial disputes on its border I don’t think neutrality would be a word I’d used to describe them and I don’t think they’d thank anyone for the ‘catch 22’ position they’d find themselves in.
The "trial" was a farce. As will presumably be the "trials" of the Mariupol defenders: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/05/23/pro-russia-separatist-leader-threatens-international-tribunal-for-azovstal-defenders-a77768
I would not support using the Hague as it is in a country which has aggressively chosen sides in this war. A new tribunal in a truly neutral site, pr ...[text shortened]... artial nations and the defendants entitled to the full panoply of due process rights, would be nice.
I don’t know about Nigeria it’s hard to know if a country is neutral or just does want to not get involved for fear of being caught in the geopolitical cross fire.
I guess the fact that he’s in prison leaves the option of making his plight part of the peace process but I do not think that he is a war criminal in any meaningful way, I think he’s a young man forced to go to war and then ordered by a superior to commit a war crime, who can say what his punishment would have been for disobeying that order a second time. A court’s marshal would have been the optimal outcome, summary execution for disobeying a direct order in a time of war was certainly a possibility.
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@kevcvs57 saidIndia has China by the balls in that it is trivial for India to cut China’s sea lines of communication along the “string of pearls”.
Really you think India is neutral? Given how dependent it is on Russian arms sales and the tightrope it walks between opposing Chinese territorial disputes on its border I don’t think neutrality would be a word I’d used to describe them and I don’t think they’d thank anyone for the ‘catch 22’ position they’d find themselves in.
I don’t know about Nigeria it’s hard to know i ...[text shortened]... tcome, summary execution for disobeying a direct order in a time of war was certainly a possibility.
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He doesn’t talk about India until 20:25. The rest is an analysis of Russia and oil markets.
EDIT - The above doesn’t really say what I thought it did except in passing. Maybe I was thinking of this one:
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@athousandyoung saidYeah the problem India has with China isn’t just based on sea lanes it’s based on land border disputes.
India has China by the balls in that it is trivial for India to cut China’s sea lines of communication along the “string of pearls”.
[youtube Zeihan India]QD5GqMainjY[/youtube].
He doesn’t talk about India until 20:25. The rest is an analysis of Russia and oil markets.
EDIT - The above doesn’t really say what I thought it did except in passing. Maybe I was thinking of this one:
[youtube Zeihan India]XqWT8IzCQ8Y[/youtube]
That’s why it’s a catch 22 for them, they need to appease Chinas ally Russia to secure its arm sales buts its also part of the ‘Quad’ which is trying to contain China in the Indo-Pacific.