• maria [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    13 hours ago

    hmm… how would a child be a dangerous military target? is the thinking maybe:

    the enemies might put children there so that the place doesnt get attacked, so we specifically train our soldiers to shoot children so that that doesnt work anymore

    ? otherwise im having difficulties imagining any way how thos would sorta make strategic sense.

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      13 hours ago

      They aren’t. It’s gallows humor about how the IOF keep murdering children with impunity and never admitting wrongdoing.

      It doesn’t make strategic sense, it’s a horrific war crime, and most other nations would be in uproar if their military did it ONCE.

      For the IOF, though, child murder is just another inconsequential part of the routine slaughter they commit every day.