Originally Posted by
skua
The sadly predictable response of the Russians to their 2 Anglo/Ukrainian PoWs does give Ukr room to execute captured Wagner thugs, since they most definitely are mercenaries. But one would hope Ukr are above such behaviour, and will retain the moral high ground.
...except that every single aggressor in Ukraine on the Russian side is conducting capital crimes, Herr Futon didn't call this a war, it is a special criminal operation or so I understood his position. I don't know if Ukraine has a death penalty for murder, paying a person to commit murder, wielding deadly weapons in public etc, but the Russians sure know how to soil their own diapers with their fixation on their Tsar's wording. If it isn't a war (pretty much smells and looks like one) but they refuse to consider it a war, then what is it? It is not covered by international war conventions, it is simply mass murder, and that is being paid for and ordered by the head hitman, Count Vlad himself.
Russia is going to take generations to wash away the putrid stink of their Tsar's genocide and the majority support for beating up their neighbors, but as we have seen before business and politicians have short memories, (remember Pol Pot? and his side kick, the current and long running boss of C'ya?)