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"Since Feb. 24, 2022, Russia has been waging simultaneous wars in Ukraine: a
conventional one, hybrid or cyber warfare, and one against the environment, or
“ecocide.”
Ecocide, used as a weapon of war, takes place alongside the systematic
destruction of the country’s civilian infrastructure and energy network. But
ecocide is not just the collateral damage of conventional warfare; in the case
of Ukraine, its aim is to make the country’s regions uninhabitable for civilian
life.
Russia is making sure that it harms Ukraine’s military campaign as much as
possible by destroying infrastructure and roads and forcing authorities to
invest time and resources in their reconstruction. Every resource invested in
saving or rebuilding a region, whether human or material, deprives the
military-industrial complex of the same resource. This is a broad-spectrum war
tactic aimed at limiting Ukrainian capabilities in several sectors,
particularly in the military sector.
I am a professor of international relations in the history department at
Université Laval and my co-author, Sophie Marineau, is a doctoral student in
history at the Université catholique de Louvain. The war in Ukraine and the
international reaction to the conflict have been the focus of our research
since 2014."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
