Russia's invasion of Ukraine is now over a year old, and every day Russian forces are either deliberately or systematically killing or torturing noncombatants. Is this a strategy? A plan to use Russia's available resources to achieve a specific military objective? Might it possibly be an artifact of a long history, since the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), of using armed force bluntly while ignoring the very possibility of "noncombatant" as a relevant category in warfare?

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