10/3: Ukraine news: war crimes

The Guardian: Russian War Crimes Continue in Ukraine

New drone video footage of the Russian military summarily executing 16 Ukrainian PoWs. War crimes and executions are not an error in the Russian army but part of organizational policy. Russia systematically bombs civilian targets and executes surrendering soldiers.

The Atlantic: The Only Way the Ukraine War Can End Russia has to stop fighting.

Esteemed historian Anne Applebaum highlights the obvious.

Wars only end in one way: when the losing side admits defeat. The War for Ukrainian Sovereignty ends when admits defeats and accepts Ukraine as an independent, sovereign nation with involatile borders.

Until then, the best option is a stalemate with effective deterrence: see South Korea, Israel.

Foreign Affairs: Russian disinformation- how to counter.

A level-headed piece by an academic on the scale of Russian disinformation, and more important, how to counter.

I quote the closing paragraph in full (Bold added):

The newly disclosed documents show that reporting on run-of-the-mill influence operations with negligible or no effect—or even exaggerating that effect—simply helps disinformation agents generate more convincing marketing material. Instead, governments, companies, and investigative organizations and media outlets that wish to counter disinformation must focus more sharply on efforts that translate into tangible consequences for the perpetrators: taking down infrastructure and accounts from social media platforms and barring their reentry as well as exposing disinformation entrepreneurs personally, sanctioning them, and indicting them. If the SDA documents were not leaked to the press by Western intelligence agencies, they should have been.