The self fellatiating "superior" pacifists in here bragging that they would never think of doing something so horrible as to defend themselves violently from a group actively trying to murder you or your fellow citizens and kidnap your children are a special sort of disconnexted from reality.
Abusers will continue to push what they can get away with and you are the types that would tell women to stay with their husbands that beat them and children to accept being raped because to fight back might make a mess of your peaceful idea of reality.
I hate Putin and any Russian war sympathizer as much as the next guy, but...
My grandfather got a white phosphorus burn during WW2. He told me it was the most terrible pain he ever felt in his entire life, you can't extinguish it, and he wouldn't wish it on his worst enemy. I heard the same kind of stories from people who got napalm burns in Vietnam.
I'm pretty sure thermite munitions are in the same category of basically inhumane weapons regardless of the circumstances, right up there with NBCs, mines, napalm and white phosphorus, and I can't say I fully side with the Ukrainians on this one. I mean I understand why they do it, but I also remember my grandfather's leg and the horror of what he told me.
As an American, I gotta say, this is probably a sentiment we ourselves shouldn't be getting behind. War crimes are committed in our name with our weapons every single day.
After seeing countless attacks on Ukrainian civilians, I really don't care what happens to the invading forces anymore. Remove them from Ukrainian territory however you want, I really don't care.
It does sound borderline war crime, but then again the US buried thousands of Iraqi soldiers alive in the first gulf war, but our lawyers also did the mental gymnastics to justify it not being one beforehand so presumably they have some justification so its just barely legal.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-12-mn-2959-story.html
That being said, its not like Russia is being super careful about its rules of engagement.
Non-detectable fragments: weapons specially designed to shatter into tiny pieces, which aren’t detectable in the human body. Examples are fragmented bullets or projectiles filled with broken glass.
Mines, booby traps, and other devices: This includes anti-personnel mines, which are mines specially designed to target humans rather than tanks.
Incendiary weapons: Weapons that cause fires aren’t permitted for use on on civilian populations or in forested areas.
Blinding lasers: Laser weapons specifically designed to cause permanent blindness.
Explosive remnants of war: Parties that have used cluster bombs in combat are required to help clear any unexploded remains.
Thermite is a protocol 3 weapon. So again, while I understand that Ukraine is desperate to defend itself, using that stuff is not great.
The sad thing is that, years after this war is over, we'll probably learn our money and weapons were misused, just as we did with Iraq and Afghanistan.
People will remind you of that, and it won't matter. You'll still support whatever war we're involved in, and all because the news network you watch insists that you should.
So the people who didn't "start the war" are welcome to utilize war crimes against their aggressors? Even if these soldiers are forced to be the aggressors due to their government? It's almost like we take out our anger on the little people who are the tools instead of the government sending them. Maybe we should consider not embracing war crimes?
This is disgusting. Russia is the aggressor and Ukraine has every right to defend itself and fight back against Russia, but could we maybe remember the soldiers are still living, breathing, feeling humans with lives as complex and deep as our own? Maybe try not using horrible weapons like this against one another? I understand Russia has committed countless atrocities in Ukraine but this is absolutely evil. War is well and truly hell.
For Ukraine? Yes. For Russia? They can leave literally whenever they want, and the Russians in Ukraine right now signed up to be there. The nanosecond the last Russian soldier leaves Ukraine and stops firing into their soil, this war is over. I don't remember the bylaw for Hell where I can just walk out whenever the hellfire becomes too hot.
"Can you be a bit more environmentally conscious while you fend off the extermination of your culture, country, family, friends, and people? Thaaaaanks."