A Russian View: Post-Mobilization Edition (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Is There a War Crime?
I think one reason we did not, I think, make any serious attempt at pre war diplomacy that would have prevented the invasion is because of our simplistic Cold War mindset. The rules for what constitutes a crime are symmetric once you're in a war and Russia isn't supposed to do the same things Ukraine does. And it's important to understand what both sides do wrong. In that case, my complaint at the time I wrote this was that this could be escalatory. It could inflame the Russian nationalists. That as far as I can tell was the net effect may have played a role in getting to where we are. But anyway, what I want to say is, there's a
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