[palmer]

"We condemn the action of the Russians, it's driven by racism and hate for black people and Africa, it's the face of the new Russia..."

Therefore we demand a beer summit.

[cunning_fish]

>...In future, if we capture Russians they will meet the same fate as those they executed,” he added. >

Considering typical Russian counter-insurgency tactics it was the dumbest statement ever.

It may easily lead to marines’ landing next time burning all boats and vehicles, pouring diesel to their wells, shooting all the goats and camels as a ‘disrupting an infrastructure of terror’. At the end survivors are free to eat sand or each other. Russians are concerned about their international image too. If one will protest their way of ‘restoring constitutional order’ and tell their sergent about a letter to UN, add all the male population and others who able to write to goats and camels.