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> At what point does this cross into genocide for you?

The point when it enters the definition of the word....

> the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

We're not talking about a few hundred or thousands civilians hit by bombs, we're talking organised and methodical wiping of entire villages/cities/regions

The jewish holocaust was a genocide, the Khmer Rouge were conducting a genocide, the Turkish committed a genocide against Armenians, &c. The scale and goals are completely different, what's happening in Ukraine is a war, it's ugly, it's revolting, it's disgusting, it's still "just" a war.



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