• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    6 months ago

    The key feature is the first part about “intent to destroy.” Russia isn’t trying to destroy the concept of Ukraine, either as an ethnicity or a country (they just want it to be a puppet-state obedient to their dictates). The US wasn’t trying to destroy the concept of Vietnam or Vietnamese people.

    Other people could draw different conclusions I guess, but to me it’s undeniable that Israel’s goal is to steadily destroy the whole concept of Palestine, with maybe some isolated individuals of Palestinian ethnicity still surviving in some location inside or outside Israel, but with Palestine itself completely erased.

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      6 months ago

      They are forcefully removing children and telling them they are Russian. Which is exactly part of the quoted definition from the comment you are replying to.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, fair enough; maybe I picked a wrong example for one of my examples. I think most of the time, it’s not that way though. Not that I’m saying that makes war good or anything.

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      6 months ago

      Putin absolutely wants to destroy Ukraine. The definition above defines all wars that have ever happened.

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      6 months ago

      Actually, Putin does want to destroy the concept of Ukraine and he said it is not a real country.