> Why do you not go further and think to imply that these civilians would not be getting killed en masse if Putin would withdraw forces of the Russian Federation from the sovereign territory of Ukraine?
Because there are no forces of Russian federation, probably apart from some Spec Ops, logistics and reconnaissance units.
> History shows that the truest way to harm civilians in conflict between groups that are not trying to kill civilians (either directly through systemic action or indirectly through things like famine) is to prolong the armed conflict by interceding on behalf of one side or the other.
So you say that Russia should abandon support of people of Donetsk and Luhansk and leave them at the mercy of Kiev government, who is committing crimes against them? [1]
I actually watch Ukrainian mainstream television and recently one of the experts was openly talking about the need to "physically eliminate about 1.5 million of civilians of Donetsk and Luhansk regions that are not able to fit in Ukrainian Nation" [2]. And he didn't get fined or jailed for these words, or even challenged by the TV host. If this is not Fascism, I don't know what is.
Why don't you ask questions such as: who started this mess? What has Russia done to stop it? What has the West done to stop it?
[1] http://www.thenation.com/article/180466/silence-american-haw...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCD4RS9LsTI
Because there are no forces of Russian federation, probably apart from some Spec Ops, logistics and reconnaissance units.
> History shows that the truest way to harm civilians in conflict between groups that are not trying to kill civilians (either directly through systemic action or indirectly through things like famine) is to prolong the armed conflict by interceding on behalf of one side or the other.
So you say that Russia should abandon support of people of Donetsk and Luhansk and leave them at the mercy of Kiev government, who is committing crimes against them? [1]
I actually watch Ukrainian mainstream television and recently one of the experts was openly talking about the need to "physically eliminate about 1.5 million of civilians of Donetsk and Luhansk regions that are not able to fit in Ukrainian Nation" [2]. And he didn't get fined or jailed for these words, or even challenged by the TV host. If this is not Fascism, I don't know what is.
Why don't you ask questions such as: who started this mess? What has Russia done to stop it? What has the West done to stop it?
[1] http://www.thenation.com/article/180466/silence-american-haw...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCD4RS9LsTI