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Hackers 'led warplanes to Syrian hospital' after targeting surgeon's computer

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Re: Hackers 'led warplanes to Syrian hospital' after targeting surgeon's computer

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I'm too young to remember the first cold war, but it seems totally insane to me that Russia is carrying out repeated war crimes routinely now, and the West is literally doing nothing to address it.

It is horrendous. I suspect the reason it's not addressed is that Russia has a list of alleged war crimes carried out by Western-supported forces, and so long as the victims are mostly Arab the West doesn't care.

Re: Hackers 'led warplanes to Syrian hospital' after targeting surgeon's computer

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> The hospital had been bombed at least 17 times, but Mr Nott believes that the only way that they could have got the precise co-ordinates of the operating theatre was through his method of directing the operation.

This article seems like total baloney to me. A hospital gets bombed for the 18th time and a doctor thinks it can only happen because his Skype got hacked?

(Of course, the more compelling story is that Russia bombed another hospital, but that's not the crux of this article.)

Re: Hackers 'led warplanes to Syrian hospital' after targeting surgeon's computer

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I'm too young to remember the first cold war, but it seems totally insane to me that Russia is carrying out repeated war crimes routinely now, and the West is literally doing nothing to address it.

It's not insane if you consider the West is doing the very same thing (committing war crimes) but Western media doesn't report in the same way about it. Just check what the Americans did in Iraq, whom they deliver their weapons in Syria to, ...

One thing I always ask myself:

The war in Syria is basically won by the regime, so why the heck would they now resort to bombing hospitals and C-weapon attacks on the population? It just doesn't make sense so that's why I am very cautious here.

This is not to say that Russia is good and the US is bad, it's just that "The first casualty of War is Truth"

Re: Hackers 'led warplanes to Syrian hospital' after targeting surgeon's computer

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I'm too young to remember the first cold war, but it seems totally insane to me that Russia is carrying out repeated war crimes routinely now, and the West is literally doing nothing to address it.

Like the US is carrying out repeated war crimes and the West does nothing - or the "East" for that matter. If something goes to court in the US if it even does, punishment is light [2] and pushed down to the lowest levels (Lynndie England got 2 years [1]). Or pushed by the president (Drone kills without a declaration of war).

If you have nuclear weapons and a large defence budget, you can do whatever you like to other countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre#Officers

Re: Hackers 'led warplanes to Syrian hospital' after targeting surgeon's computer

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post #2

I'm too young to remember the first cold war, but it seems totally insane to me that Russia is carrying out repeated war crimes routinely now, and the West is literally doing nothing to address it.

Probably because it's propaganda.

Re: Hackers 'led warplanes to Syrian hospital' after targeting surgeon's computer

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post #2

I'm too young to remember the first cold war, but it seems totally insane to me that Russia is carrying out repeated war crimes routinely now, and the West is literally doing nothing to address it.

It's not insane if you consider the West is doing the very same thing (committing war crimes) but Western media doesn't report in the same way about it. Just check what the Americans did in Iraq, whom they deliver their weapons in Syria to, ... One thing I always ask myself: The war in Syria is basically won by the regime, so why the heck would they now resort to bombing hospitals and C-weapon attacks on the populati…

Indeed, people have become skeptical of the mainstream narrative. Why does that happen? Because things don't add up.

Re: Hackers 'led warplanes to Syrian hospital' after targeting surgeon's computer

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doctor have used skype and whatsapp for sending very private information about his patients. This is the most important part of the article.

So now we have all this GDPR and doctors who's openly share personal information through skype at the same time.

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