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[–] 42 points 4 months ago (11 children)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65506993

Largely agree with what you wrote, but let's not whitewash russia to make isreal look bad in comparison. They have absolutely used/been using white phos munitions on Ukrainian civilians

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Edited. Thanks. Wasn't whitewashing Russia at all. I used Qwant, DDG, Google, and even asked a couple of AI bots, but couldn't find anything about Russia using it. But I never said that they didn't, because I am well aware that they commit war crimes too.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Huh. Thats concerning if those kind of general searches about russian warcrimes are being suppressed. For reference, I remembered the bakhmut thing offhand so my search query for the article I linked was something super specific like "2023 bakhmut phosphorous"

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Yeah, I'll have a look through my history and see how I phrased it, but it was something like "accusations of Russia using white phospherous or illegal weapons and war crimes" in a few different ways.

    ai was useless (no surprises) but thought I would see if it spat out anything different anyway. They just asked me for reference links to feed them with. Which I obviously didn't have.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Weird, maybe too many words? I searched on DDG "russia white phosphorus" and it was nothing but claims about Russian use of it DuckDuckGo search feed displaying several articles from mainstream western sources discussing Russia's use of white phosphorus

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I did get results for chemical weapons, Specifically chloropicrin, as it's in one of the links and their other heinous war crimes. I just didn't see any for white phospherous in particular. 🤷

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Not sure where you see the whitewashing of russia there?

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The part where OP said there havent been any accusations of russia using white phosphorous bombs. There is proof of russia using those weapons in bakhmut in 2022, which is what I linked to.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe he really didn't know that russia used it too. I still don't see strong evidence of him whitewashing Russia especially with his links about gross russian war crimes.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You can debate the word whitewash, but his point is valid - op said no WP, but there is evidence of WP.

    Op also said that the comparison of condemnation can still be valid without the WP point.

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