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This is a really bad move.
They are terrorists for defending their country against a foreign aggressor.
Gee, who could have predicted this?
“It was these Azov battalion Nazis who had been exterminating the civilian population in the Donetsk and Lugansk republics, deliberately and with exceptional cruelty, for eight years,” said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov.
He continued, “Our crack FSB and GRU units with the assistance of Airborne Spetsnaz were helpless against these clever Azov Nazis. We took a page out of the old and revered NKVD playbook that they used in Finland to see if that would flush them out. It worked so well for them, stepping in and putting those vile Nazi Fins in their place. But alas now faced with these slippery evil people, many of our Ukraine compatriots were murdered before we could catch them. Now we get justice.
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The crime is defending their country. I couldn’t care less about the politics.
If there is actual proof of war crimes, then yes, they should be tried, but the proof needs to be overwhelming.
If instead this looks like show trials and political executions or imprisonment of prisoners of war, then there needs to be extremely harsh consequences, like all the judges and prosecutors and witnesses being declared war criminals and warrants for their arrest and trial issued if they ever leave Russia.
I’d like to see who those foreign fighters were.
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