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War is hard. It’s horrific. It’s far from all those clean, climate-controlled offices and chart boards.
Everybody thinks the same thing: how to survive and possibly get a mission done. If you have been there, you know it.
War is hard. It’s horrific. It’s far from all those clean, climate-controlled offices and chart boards.
Everybody thinks the same thing: how to survive and possibly get a mission done. If you have been there, you know it.
Whether we like it or not, it is often far from those ideal rules written on paper. It’s a good idea to demand that combating sides respect the law of war and keep civilians safe. Unfortunately, very often, it’s easier said than done.
Not a single nation was ideal in terms of civilian safety in war. And Ukraine is not perfect. Because, again, fighting a war against one of the world’s largest militaries is much more complicated than lecturing someone from thousands of kilometers away from the battlefield.
Amnesty is correct as it stands for civilian safety in war. But, you know, as always, CONTEXT MATTERS. As someone who has seen a thing or two in this war since 2014, I can tell you that the Ukrainian military generally tries to keep civilians as safe as possible.
Evacuations, staying away from populated areas, thinking twice before returning fire.
If you want to get the difference between the two sides’ approaches, compare Sloviansk of 2014 with Mariupol of 2022. Or Popasna. Or Severodonetsk. Or Volnovakha.
If you want to get the difference between the two sides’ approaches, compare Sloviansk of 2014 with Mariupol of 2022. Or Popasna. Or Severodonetsk. Or Volnovakha.
My ruined hometown illustrates what happens when a military power doesn’t give a damn about civilians.
Of course, there are cases that do not correspond to the rules. It’s complicated. In that mess, sometimes, the rules of war are not the first thing commanders think about.
Of course, there are cases that do not correspond to the rules. It’s complicated. In that mess, sometimes, the rules of war are not the first thing commanders think about.
As a result, what happens is a Russian missile strike that kills scores of soldiers and also civilians who lived just next door. That’s why we hate war — a barely controllable tornado of blood.
CONTEXT MATTERS. And Ukraine is getting accused of certain incidents (quite possibly rightfully so) while the other side of the war, Russia, employs indiscriminate annihilation of cities as its basic tactics of war.
The last time I checked, the headline does not say “AI calls on sides to ensure civilian safety in warfare, multiple violations here!” That would have been a fair and just report. But AI overtly blames Ukraine.
Of course, Russia is more than happy to use such a wonderfully worded “report” in its war propaganda. Proportionality and common reason matter where every word is used as a weapon of war. Nobody cares if you had also previously had “something” about Russian war crimes.
People see what they are being shown at the moment.
If AI is fine about assisting an aggressor power in its murderous war of conquest via this false and misleading ”neutrality” — sorry, I am not.
You decide what happened, whether AI was being unprofessional or simply biased.
If AI is fine about assisting an aggressor power in its murderous war of conquest via this false and misleading ”neutrality” — sorry, I am not.
You decide what happened, whether AI was being unprofessional or simply biased.
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