Russia ramps up use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine, including WWI-era poison gas, 3 European intel services say

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1. > The convention’s watchdog, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, or OPCW, has found several incidents in Ukraine involving CS, but the group hasn’t conducted a full investigation, which must be requested by the member states.

   It’s been what, three years? And nobody bothered to request that investigation yet? Could it mean that whatever they’re saying now about chemical agent usage wasn’t actually the case?

   > The Netherlands’ military intelligence and the security service, together with the German intelligence service, found that the use of prohibited chemical weapons by the Russian military had become “standardized and commonplace” in Ukraine.

   You have an established convention and a watchdog that does the monitoring and investigation. Use it to prove your allegations. It was created, and has been siphoning your tax dollars all these years for this exact purpose.

   Apparently the chemical weapon usage has had the time to establish itself, and become “standardized and commonplace” – but nobody saw it fit to to do an official investigation and produce any actual, verifyable evidence. How does that work?

   > Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans called for more sanctions against Moscow and continued military support for Kyiv.

   But don’t let common sense and logic get in the way of a good narrative. I’ve heard Iraq had some of those chemical weapons as well, and Iran is about to produce a nuclear bomb any day now since I was little.

2. I don’t get why a riot control chemical that’s regularly used on civilians all over the world is somehow prohibited for use against soldiers. Like what? That just sounds completely backwards. Aren’t civilians supposed to have *more* protections?

3. International law is dumped down the drain… You can’t complain about Russia’s breaches of international law while you support Israel’s breach of international laws.

   Like Israel been using white phosphorus for so long that it is not even news anymore…

   They been using dumb bombs, they also been using starvation as a weapon of war, but we can live with that here in the west.

   I’m sure the Russians have the same excuses. Russia call Ukraines Nazis, the west call Palestinians terrorist.

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