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Naomi Levine's avatar

I don't understand why waterboarding and other forms of torment are considered torture, but rape has its own, seemingly lower, category. I have to believe that its because its a male on female crime. Are there any instances in your research on wartime rape where its male on male rape?

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Albert Errington's avatar

Best scenario is the people of Russia remove Putin. The first country Putin conquered was Russia just as the first country Hitler conquered was Germany. Nuclear is always a risk when a crazy is at the helm of a capable nation. Putin could trigger nuclear if Ukraine & west push, or Putin could trigger nuclear if he has too many domestic problems, or Putin could trigger nuclear if he sees an opportunity to expand territory. Putin is a bully to his own people as well as anyone else he feels he can abuse & exploit. The only thing that would really hold Putin back from the nuclear option is if he really doesn't have it to any great degree, we have already seen the surprising lack of fitness in Putin's conventional weaponry & soldiers. What worries me is that Iran & Putin seem to be still accessing western weapons technology that is supposed to be embrgoed.

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