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Re:Mariupol's devastation: AP journalists document war's toll by ramesh31 on Friday March 18, 2022 @05:21PM (#30727691)
>How is this handled after the war, the aggressor should pay for the damages but we can't really force them.

Sure we can. Germany was paying WWII reparations into the 90's.

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Re:Mariupol's devastation: AP journalists document war's toll by scotty79 on Friday March 18, 2022 @06:00PM (#30728095)
Sure, but the Germany was conquered. And noone is eager to start conquering Russia.
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Re:Mariupol's devastation: AP journalists document war's toll by stjohnswarts on Friday March 18, 2022 @06:35PM (#30728463)
It's basically impossible unless you're comfortable with your country becoming an apocalyptic wonderland
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Re:Mariupol's devastation: AP journalists document war's toll by MrRiddle on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:39PM (#30729059)
Germany killed 18% of the population of my country. What price would you place on that?
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Re:Mariupol's devastation: AP journalists document war's toll by SSLy on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:43PM (#30729609)
Well, they certainly like to pay putler for its gas and oil while it repeats certain stuff from WW2.
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