Azov Brigade Terrorist Determination
Published at 07:10 on 2 August 2022
So Russia has determined that the neo-Nazi Azov Regiment is a terrorist group. Two comments:
- Knowing the nature of the regiment, it is hard to feel all that sorry about this.
- Those upset about the precedent this establishes for the treatment of prisoners of war need to realize that the horses left this particular barn over twenty years ago. Specifically, they left it the moment the USA declared those captured in Afghanistan would be neither prisoners of war (with Geneva Convention rights), nor normal criminals (with rights under the US Constitution).