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Ukrainian drones now spray 4,000° F thermite streams right into Russian trenches (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 241 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (43 children)

This is what international law has to say about incendiary weapons:

  1. It is prohibited in all circumstances to make the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects the object of attack by incendiary weapons.
  1. It is prohibited in all circumstances to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by air-delivered incendiary weapons.
  1. It is further prohibited to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by means of incendiary weapons other than air-delivered incendiary weapons, except when such military objective is clearly separated from the concentration of civilians and all feasible precautions are taken with a view to limiting the incendiary effects to the military objective and to avoiding, and in any event to minimizing, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects.
  1. It is prohibited to make forests or other kinds of plant cover the object of attack by incendiary weapons except when such natural elements are used to cover, conceal or camouflage combatants or other military objectives, or are themselves military objectives.

This treeline is clearly not located within a concentration of civilians and it is concealing (or plausibly believed to be concealing) enemy combatants and therefore the use of incendiary weapons is unambiguously legal.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Azeri terrorist state bombed Stepanakert with white phosphorus and napalm with no consequences.

BTW, Russia has already used white phosphorus against civilian targets in this war, if I am not mistaken.

Israel is, of course, using those in Gaza.

I'd say legality has long lost its meaning in international relations. Not that it ever had any in this particular regard.

I've read that even not using expansive (those that expand, not those that cost more monies) bullets was not result of any humanism, but of the military logic that a soldier wounded by a conventional bullet stops being a combatant and becomes a logistical burden, while a soldier dead from a gruesome wound just stops being a combatant, possibly helping to motivate his comrades in arms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ahh, so wound them just enough is the optimal amount of mangling

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes. This also works with epidemics. Die too quickly - less chance to infect others, being one man short makes your community poorer, which means fewer travelers, which also means less chance to infect other communities.

One reason Black Death led to so much witch hunting and jew burning and talk about divine punishment - many people were immune even when exposed to piles of bodies of infected, while those to get sick would die very fast. That's one way a highly deadly and quickly developing disease can survive, be deadly only to some part of the population. Well, rats and water too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Fleas not rats! Our poor rat ~~friends~~ acquaintances have had their honor besmirched for too long!

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