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And once a day I read something, and today I've read an article in The Signal that was posted, I think, on April 1. And it really looks at what war crime is. And how do you call someone a war criminal? And does it matter when we call Vladimir Putin a war criminal? And the body count right now in terms of civilians that are dead, we have an estimate, but we don't really know
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:40
Adapt. Yes. I do believe there is a need to call a war criminal a war criminal, whether we are able to do anything about it or not, because I think it is important to call a spade a spade, especially after what's happened at Sudha. And you can see the images. It is the story of genocide everywhere. Right. This is what happens in wars everywhere. This is what happens when there is genocide and the atrocities that happened, the civilians is heartbreaking
Katie Callahan
@katiecal · 2:18
That's what it is. And I think trying to make some distinction between a regular war or war crimes, and it's just redundant at that point because it's just two groups trying to kill each other. That's all it is. And another thing that kind of made me think of is kind of like the rules of war that we've come up with over time. We don't attack on certain days or we don't attack women and children like civilians, that kind of thing
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:03
And it's an important interview to watch for anyone who has a chance because it really just looks at the mentality of some of these individual Russian soldiers and how they're behaving warm makes people into monsters. I don't think these individuals were monsters before. I really do think that something changes in people to rape and murder and shoot people in the back of the head and don't understand it. But here's that link
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