In just about every conflict, there are solders serving on the wrong side, but they still deserve honor.
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I agree. Your enemy on the battlefield might actually be a magnificent guy.
On the other hand, it would be bad form for the Japanese Emperor to go to Nanking and honor Japanese soldiers who raped Nanking.
In nearly all cases, soldiers are the victims of politicians. No politician should pass a memorial to any soldiers, or any side, without showing respect. Will Putin visit a memorial to the other side of that fight? A fine example was seen here in this country after the civil war. As president, US Grant was very respectful of the fallen southerners, and those who served the south and survived. Survivors of both sides at Gettysburg had a reunion decades later, complete with a reenactment of Picketts charge. Only this time the arriving southerners were met with handshakes and cool drinks. Soldiers are nearly never to be blamed.
But anyway, the trip was filled with trade deals and agreements. Hungary is getting a Russian gas deal from the new Turkish pipeline after they appeared to really get hit by the demise of the EU south stream project. That’s a giant development.
But all we are reading is about the protocol and dog and pony show events in public.
“In just about every conflict, there are solders serving on the wrong side,”
True.
“but they still deserve honor.”
In just about every conflict, there are solders serving on the wrong side, but they still deserve honor.
Not always. Plenty of Nazis and Japs were sadistic monsters. The muslim savages take dishonor to a new low.
savagely attacking a country that did not attack you is not a “conflict” it is a brutal massacre.
Wonderful. I can't wait for Obama's monuments to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
Does that include the Waffen SS?
The ONLY Russian soldiers deserving of respect are the ones that choose not to shoot the Hungarian Freedom fighters and chose instead to turn their Soviet tanks and themselves to the Hungarian cause in 1956. You can be sure they paid dearly after Moscow sent in the Asians unable to understand any European language, Russian among them.