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Zelensky's regime is commiting genocide by kidnapping people on the streets and sending them to die, yes.
As far as I know, real life doesn't work like cartoons where there is a good guy and a bad guy. I never said that Putin is a good guy, I even explicitly said otherwise (for those who like to go to through my comments). And yet, whenever I mention Zelensky exterminating Ukrainians somebody must say "BuT tHEn You SuPPoRt RuSSiA!!"...
Way less impressive than funding a war, exterminating people, mass imprisoning them and so on, and still still somehow claim that you support them...
So the argument is basically same as saying that the americans committed genocide during vietnam war because of the draft. I think it's extremely common practice to require citizens to defend your country during an invasion. I would argue this is done in most wars.
Sure, it's not great, but I don't think Zelensky is doing anything unexpected. Any European country would likely do more or less the same if Russia invaded.
As a European that's what I expect our government to do during an invasion. I would not call that genocide even if I'm sent to die.
do you really believe america was defending itself in the Vietnam war? is that an actual opinion that you hold?
Oh, obviously not, USA was definitely not defending itself. I was just pointing out that it would be ridiculous to say that USA was committing genocide on its own citizens when they sent them to war.
Well in the us case and precisely Vietnam, it would not be difficult to show that blacks were disproportionately drafted. The treatment of blacks could then be argued to be intentional. In the case of Ukraine I agree with the mass murder wording, for genocide I think that intent needs to be shown. So zelensky would need to intentionally kill the citizens(as in that being the goal), instead of 'just' using them like cheap meat for the machine.