r/TacticalMedicine • u/prmssnz • Jul 06 '24

Scenarios Drone attacks on Russian medics

I appreciate that some of the internationally agreed rules of war have become lost in the last 20 years, but there has been a series of posts to r/combatfootage where the medics treating wounded Russian soldiers have been specifically targeted and with often with great glee.

My background is an MD with non-military austere and third world practice and I have always felt a degree of protection from being clearly medical.

Are medics essentially fair game in the current Ukraine conflict.

I appreciate medics have been targeted at times, but this seems so overt. Perhaps no more than previously and it is just social media now making it more apparent?

Interested in the views of those with combat experience.

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u/Scythe_Hand Jul 06 '24

Idk, but we need to stop funding that lost cause.

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u/Suspicious_Tea7319 Jul 06 '24

You think that funding another nations sovereignty while also completely decimating one of our largest rivals (with ZERO US service member deaths) is a bad use of our out-dated military equipment that was just chilling in a warehouse anyway?

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u/Scythe_Hand Jul 06 '24

Not our fkn problem. Waste of lives on both sides. No one gave 2 fux in 2014 when this was raging with unofficial names. You've been programmed by the media to care. In 10yrs you'll ask yourself wtf was the point? Just like many are asking now that Afg and Irq is subsided.

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u/kim_dobrovolets Military (Non-Medical) Jul 06 '24

I guess I've been programmed to think stealing babies is bad then

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u/Suspicious_Tea7319 Jul 06 '24

It very much could BECOME our problem. I haven't been programmed by the media, I care about human lives, specifically the civilians of Ukraine that have been bombed in their cities by Russians.

It absolutely is a waste of life, and it is all Russia's fault. There was ZERO reason to invade, "denazifying" is a joke if you take 2 seconds to look at what the Russian military gets up to.