Rules of Engagement

Initially written by me as a comment on an Instagram post. My Instagram handle is @therealagent_99
This is noted in my linktree, which is found in my bio on this site.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAQsEUHuigw/?igsh=a3VqNHBycnN2Yjdm

Reposted and edited to "fit" the character limit on threads. Some minor edits/differences between my Instagram comment and threads comment also as you can only see one line of what you are writing on Instagram comments, which makes it difficult to be grammatically accurate and perfectly structured.

https://www.threads.net/@therealagent_99/post/DAZ7DIitACH/?xmt=AQGzVGYO31KK6nenV...

As much as the majority of us want to not have civilians injured or killed in wars and conflicts, it is nearly impossible as the countries, run by authoritarian dictatorships and terrorists, do not follow the rules of engagement like democratic nations do. They do not have the same regard for any rules of warfare and do not consider the sanctity of a human life. They purposefully use hospitals, schools, and other necessary civilian infrastructure and neighborhoods to hide in and use as bases. They use those buildings as strongholds and fortresses for their fighters/armies and to secure their munitions and other supplies.

They specifically "hide in plain sight" in active civilian areas and densely populated residential neighborhoods to make it more difficult for the democratic nations to fight "clean", aka, according to the "rules of engagement", as we, the Democratic nations attempt to accurately target the enemy. They fight dirty and have no regard for who gets injured or killed in the process. They use civilian structures to shield themselves, they use actual civilians—live human beings—as shields for their fighters. They use children and people with disabilities as pawns in their war as they outfit them with suicide vests and IEDs. They use schoolchildren and plant explosive devices in their backpacks. They use human beings, their own brothers and sisters, their own children, as pawns, as cannon fodder.

The USA, Canada, Israel, and other democratic nations fighting these terrorist authoritarian dictatorships do a marvelous job with keeping the civilian casualty count very low—especially when you consider they are fighting an enemy specifically using our "kindness" our sense of humanity, against us in these wars. They care not for others, but we do. They know this and they exploit it. They fight dirty and will continue to exploit our "kindness" as a "weakness" and then spread it all over social media and through susceptible/sympathetic news media networks/reporters as they show innocent civilians (and these aren't always "innocent civilians" either) and structural damage due to us fighting back or defending our democracies, and our peoples.