What Is the Public's Moral Obligation to Soldiers?

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If you haven't been in war, you don't know war, which that is the fundamental premise of this argument. There's a way in which it becomes a profoundly silencing effect on the possibility of actually having a political argument about the wars. We've had the conversation that yeah, the US went into Iraq on a lie. On a lie is not the problem. It was a war crime. If one thinks Russian invasion of Ukraine is a war crime, which under international law,. Russia went into Ukraine on a pretext.

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