Werewolf wrote: flamming_python wrote:I could care less about the smelly gangrene mutants from the Azovstal catacombs to be honest
Russia is treating them with more respect than they deserve. They've even taken the piss, portraying the whole thing as an 'evacuation'.
They took the civilian population captive as shields, fortified a city whose population does not want them to be here, tied down Russian forces, and played this morale boost role in prolonging the war.
And now this 'no filming' condition. What?
Russia should declare the thermobaric blasting of the whole place in 24h, with the only acceptable means of salvation being to crawl out of there on whatever limbs are intact. And if foreign mercs want to stay down there to avoid being filmed - fine, they can savour the high-temperature smell of fuel-air explosives.
By all means of course treat ordinary Ukrainian soldiers who surrender like normal people and in a timely manner elsewhere in the Ukraine - with all due decency and medical assistance if required.
As much as I wanted to see that whole shit place FOAB'ed the entire scenario would have been not in favor for reasons like LNR and DNR putting to trial the Nazis and ultra Ukro-Orcs.
Taking them hostage for the legal denazification will add only wonders for LNR and DNR being more actively accepted as souvereign countries and on top of that can be shown like trophies to the world of the "non existent Nazis" in Kokaina.
Ultimately it is a propaganda move with far greater consequences than a FOAB as it will be going to history books and be just one huge coffin nail in the Empire of Lies who fought for the "Good".
No Azovites will be exchanged as POWs but the Russians should agree to exchange Azov POWs against their own and meet up, but coming with average VSU soldiers. They can't know each Azovite by face and will exchange them for their supposedly Azov guys. But no Nazi should ever be exchanged but be openly trialed by LNR/DNR with death penalty.
Hell the Germans were prosecuting some 90+ year old gardeners from some people who were not even confirmed to be ever in SS. Russia needs to denazify for the next 3 generations until all of them are dead along with the slogan of Salo Kokaine and all the other nationalistic views.
Anyone who was and is actively rewriting history, like the Ukrainians get thought in school, that all human species came from the Ukrainians with their 140.000 history of high-elf civilization must be seen as a form of systematic Nazi collaborators and must face death penalty as the Gardner of some alleged SS-Soldier.
Kokaina seized to exist, they just didn't get the message, yet. It was about time.
My hopes or prognoses are, that Kokaina will be eventually gone from the map by end of this decade and by 2035 or preferably prior Belarus will hold a referendum to join Russia.
Kazakhstan will be the next Kokaina project and Russia is losing their sphere of influence there.
The Turks have successfully established for some years now a "Pan-turkish" sphere of influence. The nationalistic sentiment of Kazakhs against russians is growing and will be exploding within the next few years if Russia does not intervene with Kazahkstan's government.
With the turkish influence among the Turk*& *stan countries and Russia getting bigger by swollowing its old territories they might get more afraid and nationalism will increase and this vast territory with huge resources will go in Turkish hands.
I don't see much of Russia doing work in this regard. We will have something similiar next decade if we are unlucky.