From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics
Subject: Re: When a "Shootdown" becomes War
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 06:48:37 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:54:33 -0000 (UTC), Dhu on Gate wrote:
> Shooting down Russian plane would mean war â Aleksey Meshkov
>
> https://www.rt.com/russia/625270-russian-envoy-france-nato-war-military-aircraft/
>
> "Any NATO member state that shoots down a Russian warplane would
> trigger a âwarâ with Russia, Moscowâs envoy to Paris[] has warned."
>
> The Russians are NOT being entirely clear on this, and not out
> of any intent to deceive, but out of misunderstanding the DEPTH
> of Western/NATO officious ignorance.
>
> What IS NOT GETTING SAID is that Shooting Down Russian Drones,
> wherever, amounts to a *property crime* under Russian Law.
>
> Shooting down a _meatsack_ with a human pilot constitutes,
> at the VERY LEAST, an Attempted Murder, and more likely
> straight up murder, with NATO blathering additionally
> *guaranteeing* a charge of planned and plotted First
> Degree Murder.
>
> And Russia's Law sees Murder as a Human Crime of Real
> Consequence to it's Nation: 'bots just ain't people there ;-)
>
> Dhu (go figr, aye?)
>
And I concur with this take. In fact, I'm guessin' most of the Weirld duz2:
corporate "citizens" are 'Bots. They are the "Artificial Intelligence" of
Business. Human constructs granted undue rights intended for the creatures
of G*.
Dhu
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