And a bunch of bloodthirsty libs jumped down my throat for daring to speak against Ukraine and their noble practices of not notifying people that they're going to be doing a false flag operation and also Russia also did war crimes so international law is therefore null and void

And the weirdest part is that nobody seemed to catch that the thing that most upset me was random innocent truck drivers being the ones put at risk in this scheme and nobody even wondering about what would have happened to them if they got stopped and searched by Russian soldiers and labeled as "terrorists" for just taking a delivery job

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[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago

does not mean that Russia will then be compelled to so the same as tit-for-tat.

I didn't mean that they were necessarily going to commit retaliatory crimes. What I mean is they become "justified" if they do. Yes, Russia has shown tremendous restraint, especially compared to what NATO has been doing the last 50 years.

I'm pointing out that if Ukraine were to do something incredibly stupid like use biological weapons on Russians (such as anthrax), Russia would have a good reason to use WMDs of their own in order to accelerate the end of the war before Ukraine did it again.

This is the reason the Axis Powers didn't use chemical weapons against the British or Americans. They knew if they did, the Allies could retaliate with a much larger stockpile of more sophisticated weaponry. It's not like nazis were against chemical weapons (it's how they killed most of their victims in concentration camps).

So with Ukraine doing stuff like using civilians to carry out attacks, Russia has enough reason to escalate if they think it's strategically viable. There would be no consequences for Russia, only their own guilt and internal turmoil.