Quote from: paxmao on Today at 01:07:39 PM

Quote from: tvbcof on Today at 12:13:23 PM

Quote from: paxmao on Today at 11:47:46 AM

And again, somehow Putin invades Ukraine, orders the massive kidnapping of children, flattens cities, kills civilians and military without any distinction, but for Branko all this is about the US "not being able to de-escalate" - meaning accepting the de-facto situation and white-washing the invasion current result.
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By analysis of all of the credible information I can piece together, Ukraine made massive use of human shields and still does.
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That is false information, obviously without any proof attached other than your xenophobic discourse. People leave in cities. The RF is shelling cities often with no strategic objective nor other reason than to create panic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

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During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia has forcibly transferred thousands of Ukrainian children to areas under its control, assigned them Russian citizenship, forcibly adopted them into Russian families, and created obstacles for their reunification with their parents and homeland.[3] Evidence of this has been collected during investigations conducted by several international organizations and groups, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, The International Criminal Court, Amnesty International and Missing Children Europe, and by journalists for media outlets such as The Observer and Al Jazeera.[4

Looks like a dystopia, something so difficult to believe, yet so real. And this calls from the ones calling "nazi" here and "nazi" there to anything that is not what they want to hear.

Is Al Jazeera a "Ziocon" organisation? Amnesty International? You are really running our of credibility, if a xenophobic discourse like yours had any ever.

The basis for the ICC warrant was the report of the Conflict Observatory NGO, which was created by the US State Department specifically "to investigate Russian atrocities in Ukraine."

According to the authors, they did not conduct interviews with witnesses or victims, but only collected information available from open sources, most of which are Russian-language media, using Google Translate or Deepl. As stated in the report, children from different settlements of the LPR and DPR received vouchers to Russian camps, while "most of the parents, as it turned out, gave their consent for the child to visit the camp." At the same time, vouchers "were provided to children from Ukraine absolutely free of charge." “Many of these parents are on a low income and wanted to take advantage of the free ride for their child. Some hoped to protect their children from the ongoing fighting, send them to a place with good sanitation, or provide them with nutritious food not available where they live. Other parents just wanted their child to have a vacation."

The report also said that the children were taught a "school curriculum", conducted "free educational excursions to cultural or patriotic places throughout the country", lectures by Russian veterans and historians, and military events. Local government officials and agencies provided school supplies. Also, “in the camps covered in this report, there are no records of child abuse, including sexual or physical abuse” and “almost all camp participants returned home in a timely manner.”

Now evaluate what wording is applied to these actions in the report. The offer of free trips is "mobilization for the recruitment of children." The field trips and school program are "political re-education" to "erase his identity" and the lack of information about abuse is due not to the absence of such treatment, but to "cover-up due to cultural stigma and the risk of retaliation." Grin