“Volunteers” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. It implies that these were just little helpers giving aid to civilians à la Doctors Without Borders, rather than signing up to fight in a war where everyone knows that death is a guarantee. But the death is only okay when it happens to Russian soldiers, anyone else it’s suddenly senseless killing. I’m a fairly empathetic person but even I have to say that when you sign up to fight in a war don’t be surprised when you end up dead. That’s literally the whole point. Did they not think that by killing Russian soldiers the same wouldn’t be done to them? This isn’t Call of Duty, you don’t get to respawn.
“Volunteers” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. It implies that these were just little helpers giving aid to civilians à la Doctors Without Borders, rather than signing up to fight in a war where everyone knows that death is a guarantee. But the death is only okay when it happens to Russian soldiers, anyone else it’s suddenly senseless killing. I’m a fairly empathetic person but even I have to say that when you sign up to fight in a war don’t be surprised when you end up dead. That’s literally the whole point. Did they not think that by killing Russian soldiers the same wouldn’t be done to them? This isn’t Call of Duty, you don’t get to respawn.
Gotta shape the narrative. Like the one git that got offed recently was repeatedly called a “medic”, to imply his death was a crime