2/ In USA and several other countries, the people are the sovereign. The people have the moral and practical right and obligation to decide the *exceptions* to the rules.
We've seen that in action many times.
3/ The people deciding exception to rules, above and beyond lawyers' "rule of law":
"Penny Auction", in particular in context of Great Depression
1/ There's an interesting pattern where Ukrainians claim that Russians did something unexpected & very wrong, even hardly believable. Denials, derision and accusations of "lies" come rolling in from experts, blue checkmarks and Ru MoD.
2/ This particular story is hardly believable.
>Everybody knows not to dig there
>No real military value to digging in there (in fact the trenches were abandoned without being much used)
>The radiation there "isn't even that bad" after decades
1/ It's a bit unfair to compare MANPADS (#Javelin) to a squad-level weapon (#Stugna) -
- but yeah there seems to be a *gap* in the known & observed effectiveness.
2/ The Stugna (aka #Skif) #ATGM system is pretty neat, especially for defenses, static warfare & prepared ambushes. Also has a vehicular derivative for mobile warfare - a remotely controlled station courtesy of yet another #Ukraine-#Turkey cooperation.