Quote Originally Posted by mojo
I mean... you say that, but...

The EU has absorbed over 1.5 million refugees in the past 10 days.


Funny how not long ago they were "full" when a lot of brown refugees needed help.
I don't think this is an accurate reflection. I think the EU continues to absorb plenty of refugees of all races. Ukraine is an immediate crisis, so of course there's a high number of their citizens fleeing to Europe. These people are not economic migrants. They are fleeing war and are highly likely to return home when it is safe to do so, assuming their home isn't a wasteland.

It's like trusting the reports of war crimes coming out of Ukraine these past days. Not 1 of them can be trusted. But at the same time, they can't all be false. Which ones are true, which are false? I can't tell. What's the ratio of true to false? I can't tell.
"War criminal" seems to be the new "Nazi". It's like the next step up in highly exaggerated rhetoric. The meaning of the words "racist" and "Nazi" have been diluted, now it's time for a new one. "War criminal".

I don't know what is and isn't a war crime. What I will say though is I don't hold the opinion that attempting to shell a legitimate target, say a TV station, missing it by 5 meters, and taking out some civilians, that this is a war crime. If the Russians have been deliberately shelling civilians fleeing cities during a ceasefire, that very probably is a war crime. But it's very difficult to confirm such incidents are true.