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red_is_ash posted...

Sativa_Rerose posted...

Whatever it takes to win. Raping civilians doesn't help you win.

Maybe it doesn't help you win, but it creates fear. It essentially gives you more power. It humiliates the enemy even more. If you were fighting for your country, wouldn't that be what you want? Anything to end the war quicker to stop the mess?

Let's be honest guys. There are no rules in war. Whoever says that there are rules in war is saying BS. Th only rule in war is that you have to try your hardest to win. In every war fought by every country, I can bet you guys that nobody has properly adhered to the Geneva Convention.

Syria and the chemical bombs, the US and the nukes, China and the forced conformity...the list goes on. If you could help the war, you would use chemical weapons.

Realistically, though, that fear can backfire pretty catastrophically. It can galvanize people against you and makes the propaganda pretty much write itself. Recruiting local support is actually much more effective in the long run. Like, look at the Nazis during Barbarossa; they tried to commit genocide against the Slavic people of Eastern Europe, who actually hated Stalinist Russia, but became incredibly well dug in partisan guerillas who slowed the march into Russia to a complete halt. Had they recruited the peasants, they would have had a literal instant army, or at the very least, stoked a civil war they could exploit.