Ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe - when will the United Nations declare this a genocide?

[Anonymous]

It's literally a spit in Nato's face right there in Berlin.

[Anonymous]

what a sickening reality. this has got to stop yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Germany retailers are saying they are gonna jack up prices by 20% minimum in the next few weeks

Unlike other countries, Germans are super stingy (more than Israelis !!!) and hyper sensitive to inflation. Even tho the gov has a ton of fiscal space. remember, modern Germany is a very selfish and mercantilist country (way more than uk or France for example)

if Germany follows Poland in maximalist demands from Russia, it’ll bring down the government there. German people are different from British people when it comes to how they view foreign affairs and what they are willing to put up with

[Anonymous]

The comments in the tweet says that Berlin has a huge Russian community. Those are not Germans in cars with Russian flags, those are Russians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile in Berlin

The scumbags who participated in that car parade should have their papers revoked and be sent back to Russia.

[Anonymous]

At least 100,000 people hit the streets in Berlin on Dec 27 against Russia's invasion of neighboring Ukraine.

[Anonymous]

Does declaring official genocide give the UN more leverage than the current focus on documenting war crimes for Putin to be prosecuted as a war criminal?

It is barbaric and horrific - but How can it be declared genocide when they are generally the same ethnic groups as a majority of Russians ?

[Anonymous]

^^^^^
Sounds more like UN can go after Putin for Crimes against Humanity rather than genocide. Ironically, and tragically, this legal concept (CAH) was conceived within Ukraine.

What's the Difference Between 'Crimes Against Humanity' and 'Genocide?'
Bosco Ntaganda has been charged with the first. Here's what it means.
By Robert Coalson

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/03/whats-the-difference-between-crimes-against-humanity-and-genocide/274167/

What are the differences between the legal terms "crimes against humanity" and "genocide"? And are both equally useful in punishing mass crimes and facilitating closure?

Tell us in a nutshell, if you can, what are the legal concepts of crimes against humanity and genocide?
Crimes against humanity and genocide are two distinct concepts. They became part of international law in the mid-1940s, after the end of World War II, and really around the time of the Nuremburg trials. They were new concepts -- they are relatively recent in that sense. And what I have been doing in a new book that I am working on is tracing their origins.

The basic difference between crimes against humanity and genocide is as follows: Crimes against humanity focuses on the killing of large numbers of individuals. The systematic, mass killing of a very large number of individuals will constitute a crime against humanity. Genocide has a different focus. Genocide focuses not on the killing of individuals, but on the destruction of groups. In other words, a large number of individuals who form part of a single group. And the two concepts in this way have different objectives. One aims at protecting the individual; the other aims at protecting the group.

Your research traces both concepts back to the Ukrainian city of Lviv, is that right?

The two issues really hit the headlines in international-law terms in 1945 and 1946, around the time the Allies were preparing the Nuremburg trials and they were deciding what they would charge leading Nazi defendants with at those trials. And there was a big debate about whether to deal with the issue of crimes against humanity or genocide. And in fact, they went with crimes against humanity.

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What I'm doing right now in my book is tracing the origins of these two concepts and I have taken them back to two men who were responsible and both studied in the same town. It was called Lemberg and Lwow, and is now called Lviv.

Today it is in Ukraine, on the western outskirts of Ukraine near the Polish border. It is a remarkable city -- it has a remarkable university that is older than Harvard University. It was very famous for mathematics. It was also very famous for law and at that law school between 1915 and 1925, two men studied. Hersch Lauterpach, who became after that a professor of international law at Cambridge University -- he was really the man responsible for putting crimes against humanity into the Nuremburg Charter. And then a couple of years after him, another man came along, Raphael Lemkin -- he's in fact much more famous. And he is the man who invented in 1943 the word "genocide," meaning the killing of groups. And what struck me as remarkable was that both men studied at the same law school.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand why the left all these bodies out in display like this. Makes absolutely no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why the left all these bodies out in display like this. Makes absolutely no sense.

This is not about left or right - this is about basic humanity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why the left all these bodies out in display like this. Makes absolutely no sense.

This is the most disturbing thing. They don’t see anything wrong with it/they want to sow fear in those who see it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why the left all these bodies out in display like this. Makes absolutely no sense.

They retreated in a hurry. No time to cover up what they did. Also, it's a way to terrorize Ukrainians into submission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Germany retailers are saying they are gonna jack up prices by 20% minimum in the next few weeks

Unlike other countries, Germans are super stingy (more than Israelis !!!) and hyper sensitive to inflation. Even tho the gov has a ton of fiscal space. remember, modern Germany is a very selfish and mercantilist country (way more than uk or France for example)

if Germany follows Poland in maximalist demands from Russia, it’ll bring down the government there. German people are different from British people when it comes to how they view foreign affairs and what they are willing to put up with

We are already seeing it with yet another victory of Orban’s party in Hungary. He adopted a pragmatic approach and his people are apparently happy.
There Will be changes in govt in many countries as the prices rise. Also many people still haven’t forgotten excessive covid restrictions.
The new governments will hear the will of the people loud and clear and will become pragmatic in dealing with Putin.
All this doesn’t bode well for the prospect of punishing him for the crimes. It also doesn’t bode well for Ukraine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why the left all these bodies out in display like this. Makes absolutely no sense.

They retreated in a hurry. No time to cover up what they did. Also, it's a way to terrorize Ukrainians into submission.

And they left mines under them so whoever recovers them will get blown up, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why the left all these bodies out in display like this. Makes absolutely no sense.

It's because a.) the Russians were in a hurry and b.) the Russian soldiers are barbaric animals who don't care about human decency even if they weren't in a hurry