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      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        Can’t kill war prisoners. If you kill war prisoners your enemies will never ever ever surrender against you ever again. It is absolutely essential to treat war prisoners with the highest degree of respect and treatment in order to encourage enemies you have already defeated to surrender. Taking 100 men in alive is better than losing 10 of your men to kill 100 men who stage a last stand. Not to mention the information those prisoners then also give up as well.

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          If you kill war prisoners your enemies will never ever ever surrender against you ever again

          Trump literally murdered Qassem Soleimani after requesting diplomatic talks; the government’s enemies SHOULDN’T surrender, ever

          • hello_hello [undecided, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            Maduro is still a head of state and this wasn’t a decapitation strike abroad. They basically have one of the worlds most visible hostages who they now can’t get rid of. They literally kidnapped his wife for no good reason.

            The US feels content showing him off in photos that make him look good so I have some suspicion that they genuinely believe that this law and order arresting spectacle is actually them winning.

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        Executing Epstein literally didn’t do jack shit either in terms of silencing any sort of narrative or coverage, it probably had the opposite effect in the grand scheme of things if we are speaking in terms of the Streisand effect. Executing a world leader in his own jail cell and staging it as a suicide would mean that no other world leader or political figure would surrender in the same position and would also risk bolstering the Venezuelan resistance among the people even further than it already has.

        This is compared to murdering him in Venezuela where they could say it was the fog of war and Maduro was killed accidentally or after resisting arrest or some made up shit that gets libs forgetting everything the next day.

        The hexbear doomerism would be even worse if Maduro was murdered like Allende.