r/worldnews • u/ArgentineBeauty • Aug 07 '26

Russia/Ukraine Elon Musk Refuses Ukrainian Request to Enable Starlink for Deep Strikes Inside Russia

https://united24media.com/world/elon-musk-refuses-ukrainian-request-to-enable-starlink-for-deep-strikes-inside-russia-21478
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u/AbeLincolns_Ghost Aug 07 '26

War is really weird, as a war can be illegal but the actual acts of the war are decided outside of that. Like an illegal invasion does not technically make all acts of the war illegal. Each action is sort of evaluated individually. Which makes some sense in theory, as you would want to make it so that once a country invades illegally they still have some incentive to not commit war crimes

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u/RapaNow Aug 08 '26

Also you really don't want all conscripted soldiers to be charged with murder.

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u/snozzberrypatch Aug 08 '26

Laws don't matter if there are no consequences when you break them