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by trasz 1509 days ago
Losers don’t have legal rights. See how nazi Germany and Japan were handled after WW2.

As for “random conflict” - this isn’t a random conflict, as evidenced by the scale of (still expanding) sanctions.

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Don’t know much about Japan, but German nazis were not only subjected to trial, but some of them even got jobs in e.g the US. So losers do have rights, even literal nazis in 1945.

From the P.O.V of China, Brasil and many other countries it is a random conflict that does not affect them. Rather it’s the sanctions which they take notice of and the indirect effects of the sanctions such as food shortages, price increases, etc.

I’m not talking about Russians, the people - I’m talking about Russia, the country. There were no laws that mandated what was made to nazi Germany and Japan after the war.

From POV of China this is absolutely not a “random conflict” - it’s a war between world’s two nuclear powers. And yes, it looks like this mainly because of the successful defensive actions, but that’s just an “implementation detail”, so to speak.