• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    1 month ago

    If the person had reliable knowledge they should have been trying to alert people to it, not make a profit of it. Whoever it was deserves to suffer for profiting off of dead civilians and illegal acts.

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      1 month ago

      they should have been trying to alert people to it

      They would probably end up being criminally prosecuted for leaking the info, and I doubt some rando would be believed this stuff anyway, or even be able to reach any relevant audience. Unless they were a journalist (apparently some knew about it but kept silent), but again, leaking this would be suicidal.

      They profited off having good connections in a powerful imperialist state, and the naïve gamblers; dead civilians were irrelevant for the outcome. There’s way too many layers of rot at play for me to find this story in specific to be notably bad.