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    “The news is so focused on children trapped in a war zone but they’re ignoring the real issue we should be focusing on: children being safely transported out of a war zone.”

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      Russia is taking Ukrainian children, placing them in foster care, and putting them up for adoption to be raised as Russians. This is the definition of genocide.

      Genocide is an internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. These acts fall into five categories:

      1. Killing members of the group
      2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
      3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
      4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
      5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
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          You are implying this is some diplomatic decision. They are being abducted. They have no choice. Again, these children are being placed in foster homes and put up for adoption to be raised as if they are Russian. This isn’t a refugee rescue operation. It’s cultural genocide. You’re either wildly obtuse, or in defense of genocide.

          https://www.reuters.com/world/us-aware-credible-reports-russia-is-listing-ukrainian-children-adoption-white-2024-06-12/

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            So you would prefer that they be left where they are, understood.

            Personally I think it’s good that children not be left in dangerous, traumatic situations, but if you want to classify something as “genocide” when it involves saving the lives of the “victims,” then I guess I am defending “genocide.” And if you wanted to call if “murder” when I take a drink of water, I guess that means I’ll defend “murder” too. If you play around with words enough you can make anything look bad.

            I consider people being slaughtered worse than children being raised in a culture different from that of their parents, so sue me.

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                You’re using a false-dilemma argument

                No, I’m using a real-dilemma argument. If you’d care to provide an alternative to taking them out of a war zone or leaving them there, I would love to hear it.

                How many Rubles do you get per comment?

                Of course, the “everyone who disagrees with me is a secret agent” conspiracy theory. I’m not feeling particularly quippy today so I’m not going to bother making fun of it.

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                    Where they’ll be raised by French or German or English parents, etc. Still doesn’t address your core issue.

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              We would prefer they go with their parents or at least family.

              Which Russia is preventing by kidnapping them.

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                We’re talking about war orphans. Generally, their family is either dead or can’t be located.

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                  Most people have extended families, that could be located if someone tried. But I think you knew that.

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                    Yes, and hopefully peace will be achieved as soon as possible so that that process can happen, but it’s a little hard to track people down during the chaos of war. This isn’t a new phenomenon.

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          What a moronic take. Those Russian must be saints taking those poor Ukrainian children after, you know, illegally invading their country, killing their parents, and destroying their cities.

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            I never called them saints, I only said that transporting war orphans into safety is not genocide.

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                Being a tankie is when you consider children being adopted to parents who raise them in a safe environment “safety,” in comparison to living in a war zone.

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          I can think of one country first in line to take them: Ukraine, or Ukrainian refugees sheltering in NATO countries. Wtf kind of fascist take are you spewing? 'Someone has to save these kids from the warzone we created; can’t just give them to their extended families, those are the enemy, guess we have no choice but to do genocide '. Get the fuck out of here.

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            We’re talking about war orphans, children whose families cannot be located.

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              Did they try locating the extended families, or did they just abduct thousands of children to be raised as Russians? That’s a rhetorical question, they did the latter.

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                War orphans are not a new thing. Every war that’s ever been caught has produced children who’s families cannot be found, because wars are chaotic and also deadly.

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                  Oh yeah, like how during the Iraq war when the US abducted all those Iraqi children and gave them to American families? Or when France stole all those orphans from central Africa to raise as little French kids? Or when the Canadian adoption system was flush with Afghani children they took away from their families and homeland?

                  Pretty sure abducting children after killing their parents has always been wrong.

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                    This only didnt happen because Americans feel no empathy to help non-white children and families.

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                    If the US ever tried evacuating Iraqi orphans into the US adoption system, the right would start race riots over it. We didn’t even let our collaborators in.

                    No, instead, the children were left in the war zone where countless numbers were killed.

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          So if Israel took every Palestinian child they saw, regardless of what family they have, and brought them to Israel for an Israeli family to raise, you’d be fine with that?

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            So if Israel took every Palestinian child they saw, regardless of what family they have

            Russia is not doing this. We’re talking about war orphans.

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                I’d be better than the current situation, yes. It’s by no means ideal, but Palestinian children would be better off being adopted by Israeli families than starving to death or being bombed or shot. My problem is with them putting them in the situation in the first place.

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                  I mean, it’s hard to argue with that. It would still be genocide, but at least kids wouldn’t be dying.

                  God. It’s fucked up.

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                    Objection used a false comparison.

                    A more direct analogy would be if they were being put up for adoption by the Israeli government. That’s what makes it genocide. Once adopted, they become property of the Russian family. They’re not being returned to their homes when the war is over like the refugees who have sought amnesty in the EU.

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                    What I’m saying is that the problem isn’t moving war orphans out of a conflict zone, the problem is that there’s a conflict zone in the first place.

                    It’s not as if these orphans are some sort of “prize” to be won and brought home as spoils. Caring for them takes resources. Individual Russian families are not out there twirling their moustaches thinking, “How can I help destroy Ukrainian culture… I know! I’ll adopt a child and spend years raising them as my own, that’ll show 'em!”

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      “The news is so focused on children trapped in a war zone but they’re ignoring the real issue we should be focusing on: children being safely transported out of a war zone.”

      Jesus fucking Christ. Imagine being so pro-genocide you make apologia for kidnapping literal children and ethnic cleansing.

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        What I’m learning from this is that libs are perfectly fine with children being left to die in an active war zone and are actively opposed to getting them to safety.