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Just to be clear -- the whole reason countries do not play games with legal technicalities here is that when they start doing so, the rules of war go out the door and everyone starts executing prisoners of war. The rules of war are fundamentally nothing more than a gentleman's agreement...

If foreign volunteers are considered mercenaries and executed as such, the same BS logic should be applied to consider every Russian soldier in the Ukraine as a "mercenary".

In the eyes of Russian leadership, the loss of face involved in having to ask the West for help far outweighed the lives of those sailors. For that matter, even a full-scale rescue attempt by domestic Russian forces was clearly decided to be unacceptable; the decision was made to downplay the...