Re:Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong ...
by lostlogin on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @10:59AM
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The conduct of the alloed troops in Afghanistan can’t really be called scrupulous. One of the examples in the below link has troops mutilating corpses and collecting severed fingers.
And on the flip side, the Russian troops there were badly equipped and half starved at times too - Boys In Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich is a depressing series of accounts from there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:War_crimes_in_Afgha...
Re:Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong ...
by onepointsixC on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @11:12AM
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Two other super powers have tried in Afghanistan without any "moral high ground" and the results have been the same.
So you mean that living standards drop back by 100 (or 1000) years?
But seriously - asymmetric warfare works best against scrupulous adversaries who claim the moral high ground and stop short of "salt the earth" warfare. China doesn't, the CCP won't mind starving out an entire city or state to get them to stop resisting, just like the Soviets didn't.