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Culture War Roundup for the week of August 28, 2023

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If you expect Russia to want kill any pro-Western person in Ukraine

I am not expecting this. I expect them to murder some random subset of such people, or credibly threaten to do this (or torture them or threaten to do this). Continue to do this until they are at least not pretending to not be one.

Refuse to rescue people without Russian passports (there were reports of that, especially after dam destruction).

Loot especially such people, kidnap their children etc.

if on 24 February somehow Russians occupied all of Ukraine we would see 160.8 Ukrainians brutalized every day on average

if Russia state would not be busy primarily with fighting against Ukrainian forces this would likely get much worse

  • This piece for example tries to frame 320 victims in 9 months of occupation of a large as an evidence of genocide but it's quite poor if you can count.

It mentions that just one specific organisation examined 320 cases. Not that 320 cases were found.

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The Mobile Justice Team, which was established by the human rights law firm Global Rights Compliance, said on Wednesday that of 320 cases examined in the southern Ukrainian province

add to that number of people that prefer to shut up rather than risk anything, were not processed by them, were raped and prefer to not report it, were murdered/kindapped and cases are not yet discovered...