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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Israeli army also does this with Palestinian prisoners. Israel has the worlds largest skin bank for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In regards to the Palestinians/Israelis this appears to be a malicious lie. If you look into it you see weird claims like poisoning people to take their organs (this ruins the organs) and taking people from graveyards for the recently killed (you don't bury people and then come back for their shit) .

The allegations being a mix of unlikely claims and provable lies suggests there is no merit whatsoever to such claims.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any source on this I could read?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It is difficult to prove non-existence. Do you have some reliable sources I can read that show this behavior? Sources who preferably don't make weird assertions or constantly spout provable lies in other respects? It doesn't count if its a reliable source that is merely reporting "unreliable source says ___"

As an example if the Washington Post reported that $KNOWN_CRANK says 'aliens are among us' the Washington Post is taking ownership of the fact that $KNOWN_CRANK said not not the veracity of the crazy claim which is left to stand or fall entirely on the credibility of $KNOWN_CRANK.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My unfounded conspiracy theory is that it is to hide certain torture and poisoning techniques. I have no knowledge on the subject, but it seems like a practical yet poorly thought out thing the orcs would do. Remove stomach and kidneys to hide stuff...then remove other things to obfuscate.

Also selling organs on various markets to fund their invasion....viable?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Not a doctor. But while probably true that some poisons could cause very visible damage to some specific organs (liver, kidneys), but if you know what you are looking for, you could most likely find it in fat tissue, hair, nails.

I feel making extra cash on the side for mister important army officer "because is hard life to live" is most likely.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago

This is awful. This is what happens when international laws are selectively enforced.

For the sake of innocent Ukrainians and innocents everywhere, someone needs to start enforcing the laws on everyone.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was like this when we found it, is normal for kidneys to be lost from gunshot, da?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

is normal for kidneys…

its quite normal to read such stuff in propaganda times, without them needing to happen at all. and it has always been like this.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Straight out of the Israel playbook

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In regards to the Palestinians/Israelis this appears to be a malicious lie. If you look into it you see weird claims like poisoning people to take their organs (this ruins the organs) and taking people from graveyards for the recently killed (you don’t bury people and then come back for their shit) .

The allegations being a mix of unlikely claims and provable lies suggests there is no merit whatsoever to such claims.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Only the biggest skin bank in the world, filled to the brim with non-citizen skin.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Straight out of the Nazi playbook

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why’d you copy their comment?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Sorry, won't do that again

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Sounds like Russians are harvesting live organs from living POW's, then sending the victims' remains back as a "fuck you" to the families.

Since Russia ignores the Geneva Convention, they should be excluded from it. Ukraine ahould be permitted to exterminate cockroaches inside of Russia.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"They're committing war crimes, so we're committing war crimes" is a bad strategy that only leads to escalation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The Russians are violating an agreement. When a party leaves an agreement, there is no longer an agreement. It is impractical for one party to abide by this specific agreement when that party suffers death as a result.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, that is not an excuse to do things like use poison gas, biological weapons or child soldiers. All that does is make things worse. It eventually leads to a nuclear weapon. I'm not sure why you don't see where escalation leads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have not suggested any of those actions at all. Also, we are in disagreement about the threat of Putin's ancient nuclear armament which has been maintained by notorious black-market scalpers for the past 50+ years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You have not. You have suggested that war crimes are acceptable. All of those things are war crimes. Escalation to making war crimes acceptable make those things acceptable.

And it's nice of you to be willing to sacrifice Kyiv because you don't think any of Putin's nukes work. I imagine Zelensky (and most of the rest of the Ukrainian population) don't feel like that's a risk that's worth taking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's a risk they are taking by fighting Putin at all. He's drawn numerous lines in the sand using the threat of nuking Kyiv, all (or most) of which have been crossed. That's why he's escalated to threatening Europe and the West. Even he is not confident in his arsenal.

I concede that it is more wise to not push to the point of finding out if possible, but I do not believe bending to or negotiating with Putin would be useful in making Ukraine whole again. I also don't think maintaining our current milquetoast approach to defending Ukraine is going to be effective either. I'm mostly in agreement with your positions, I'm just not in absolute agreement. I think a dramatic and swift action against Putin himself (a probable violation of Hague Conventions) would be an effective approach to ending the invasion.

I will hold my tongue on some other violations of international rules because they are vicious and I would (like most people) prefer we avoid them if possible. But, I think it would be an error to remove all such options dogmatically. I think Putin (and Russia at large) should be put on notice that when they refuse to play by the rules, the rules may be suspended in actions against them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There is a massive gulf between not bending or negotiating and committing war crimes.

The allies were able to fight the Nazis without becoming the Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The allies were able to fight the Nazis without becoming the Nazis.

Agreed. I think that level of aggression is needed to solve this issue as well. We aren't doing that, though. We are supporting Kyiv just enough to survive while the enemy ignores rule after rule against them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay, but that's a different subject. This started with the suggestion that if Russia is committing war crimes, Ukraine should as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It should be made clear to Russia that when they ignore the rules, they are removing the rules that protect them as well. I do not mean to suggest a blanket free-for-all of atrocities, but rather the crossing of some useful lines that we wouldn't normally cross.

But you can rest assured no one is going to do anything because our leadership seems fine with Ukraine being slowly bled to death. Assassinations, explosive aggression and a bit of "unfair" behavior should be on the table to bring an end to this. Unfortunately, an end doesn't seem to be our goal, as we are allowing this to last for years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do not mean to suggest a blanket free-for-all of atrocities, but rather the crossing of some useful lines that we wouldn’t normally cross.

And I'm telling you, that leads to escalation. Russia will then do something worse. Should Ukraine do something worse to then in return? At what point does it stop?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Your point is valid. I disagree that such action should be avoided. Holding our current pattern will result in continued death of the innocent.

I believe a much more aggressive posture is needed to win. That posture should include threats that surprise and instill fear and should be followed with swift action (which does not necessarily include atrocities).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the Geneva Conventions mostly exist to protect innocent people from war, they should never be ignored, no matter what.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The targets need not be civilian.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd wait until it's reported by bigger media channels with their reputation at the stake. Not only it's stupid, easily provable, heinous, inhumane, but it's also hard to carry it out, en masse and for no reason, with transplants being executed by select few clinics and less than a thousand of doctors. And having read a lot about prisons and army in USSR and modern Russia, I've seen a lot of morbid shit done to a living being, but yet to hear something about organized organ extraction from the dead. It also dawns on me that with how underfed and beaten POWs come back to Ukraine, there should've been a different camp to secure their health for their organs to be worth an operation.

Right now I mark it red but am open to rewiev that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You seem to think they're letting pows die and extracting organs later? Not much point in that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You are the second person to point that out. That's on me. No, I don't think they choose dead or dying for transplants because, yes, the conditions leading to death and degenerative processes starting right after that render organs useless.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who said anything about harvesting from the dead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'd assume dead once they are on the table knowing our sad state of medicine.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Friendly reminder the republiQans back russia.

Well, many do. Perjury Traitor Greed, Beavis, probably the Vaping Handjobber

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