Pentagon wants to give controversial white phosphorus shells to Ukraine, White House says no - eviltoast
  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What even is this asinine response?

    • No, they would not likely use them to perpetrate war crimes. Ukraine is using incendiaries for treelines in the middle of nowhere where Russians are hiding – not even close to civilians. You have zero evidence to support the idea that they would and are just JAQing off over nonsensical “what-ifs” as a way to move the goalposts from the indisputable fact that WP isn’t unto itself a war crime.
    • Literally any weapon can be used to commit a war crime.
    • If you want war crimes to stop, then you want Russia out of Ukraine as soon as possible due to their extreme usage of anti-personnel mines and the fact that Ukraine then needs to use them in return.
    • What is this unhinged comparison to nuclear weapons?

    Redditor-types accepting they’re indisputably wrong about something instead of doubling down challenge: impossible.