Ans another piece by the auhtor that makes me feel confirmed when calling the Russian attack on Ukriane a genocide.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/russia...e-handbook?s=r
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Russia has just issued a genocide handbook for its war on Ukraine. The Russian official press agency "RIA Novosti" published last Sunday an explicit program for the complete elimination of the Ukrainian nation as such. It is still available for viewing, and has now been translated several times into English.
As I have been saying since the war began, "denazification" in official Russian usage just means the destruction of the Ukrainian state and nation. A "Nazi," as the genocide manual explains, is simply a human being who self-identifies as Ukrainian. According to the handbook, the establishment of a Ukrainian state thirty years ago was the "nazification of Ukraine." Indeed "any attempt to build such a state" has to be a "Nazi" act. Ukrainians are "Nazis" because they fail to accept "the necessity that the people support Russia." Ukrainians should suffer for believing that they exist as a separate people; only this can lead to the "redemption of guilt."
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And this is the official definition of the crime of genocide as the antigenocide convention holds it.
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Definition
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
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Usually one also refers to the systemtic effort of a state to prevent an ethnic groupo to practiuce clturla habtis and customs and speaking nativ elanguages that identify it as mamebers of that ethnic-cultural group. Defenders of this view argue that therefore you can commit gencoide without necessariuly massacrinbg score sof people, but you can commit a "soft genocide" by preventing the foreign culture's habits and traits to be given from generation to generation, to form identities in the young, you prevent the cultural identity form breathing and have it being deleted from the world'S public display.
Often you have a mix between both gencoide, the bloody and the soft one. Tibet is an exmaple.
Its crystal clear. This Russian war of attack is attempted and pre-announced genocide. And Putin did not and does not hide it, he explicitly said what the intention is, and the intention he described matches the criteria of genocide both hard and soft. And he sticks to what he said and carries it out in practice.
The west does not want to recognise it as such, since recognition of genocide by the convetion implies mandatory legal obligation by the recognising state to confront those committing the genocide, and to fundamentally come to the recue and help of the victims. This is no free choice of states, but it is mandatory by the convention. And this conflict is something that many want to not engage in. Thats why they say the genocide is no genocide, but imply it were something more harmless and kinder, nicier.
Garry Kasparov recently said something that sums it up nicely. He said something like "Russians currently are intoxicated. The cure to that poisoning is a sounding military defeat." That is what all out goalo must be. Not a seize fire, but a soundign defeat. Biden understands this. Johnson seems to understand this. The Eastern Europeans understand this.
Macronman and Bubble-Olaf obviously do not. They do what they can to prevent a Russian defeat.