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Russia is clearly wrong and the aggressor, but how are you getting to genocide?
The ethnic cleansing of, by Russia's count, nearly a million Ukrainian children from the occupied territories?
The erasure of Ukrainian culture in the occupied territories?
The intentional mass slaughter of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners?
The repeated statements from high-ranking officials in the Russian government that the goal is the destruction of the Ukrainian nation?
Okay, yes, it checks a TON of genocide boxes, and every action Russia has made this whole time supports genocide, and they literally are calling for it at the state level, but can you really say for sure that it's genocide?
I mean just because it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck, and shares 99.999% the same DNA as a duck, doesn't mean for sure it's a duck.
I'd say the /s isn't necessary, but apparently it is since people still seem confused about the whole "genocide" thing... Somehow
It’s not genocide unless they systematically stuff Polish Jews into railroad cars and keep them in labor camps until they kill them all in gas chambers disguised as showers but ONLY if they use right kind of gas and ONLY IF there’s at least 5 million of them and ONLY IF the Soviet Union grinds them down so American can swoop in and claim capitalism won and fascism can secretly continue the way the confederacy also got off the hook. Then it’s genocide.
Everything is just sparkling ethnic cleansing.
You joke, but legit since the Holocaust was so bad that there's resistance to call anything less than that a genocide.
Umm how do you define genocide??! Cause it's pretty obvious to me that genocide is defined as: "something bad I don't like but isn't what Russia is doing?"