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Over 20,000 Wagner troops killed, 40,000 wounded in Ukraine: Prigozhin-linked channel
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Absolutely! Do you not? There were definitely tragic stories there, of men who died before their time who did not sympathize with nazi Germany, and did not want to go to war if they hadn't been drafted. They would have rather lived their peaceful lives with their girlfriends. I'm not saying you nessecarily should pity them, just that you not doing so reflects a political view of the people involved. You reduce humans to us, the worthy humans, and them, the sub-humans. everyone on my side are principally victims, everyone on the other side are principally perpetrators. We are worthy of connecting, they are not.
It's an easy view to fall into, and you are not alone in thinking that way. It is only getting more common as the world gets increasingly wound up in war and war mentality.
I can warmly recommend the YouTube documentary 'the great war' made between 2014 and 2019 about war and it's toll on humanity.
Wagner troops are not foot soldiers defending their country, they're mercenaries who kill for money. They are invaders and occupiers whose sadism & crimes against humanity is known.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/20/russia-war-crimes-abducting-ukraine-children-elderly/
Alterate link : https://archive.ph/8fnwV
These are Russian soldiers and civilians, not Wagner mercs. Still pity them?
Still pity who? War criminals? No. I don't understand your argument here. You're making straw men of my points.