


Rаре as a weapon of war. Part 2/3 ♂️ Cultivating militaristic courage, as Goldstein points out, cements ties within a certain group, where as a result of gender-based violence, an ugly overexpression of machismo arises. Recruits in such a system are more prone to sexual crimes because they accept the social norms of the system. For such groups, gang rаре is a regular practice as an act of initiation into "real men," a crime are committed as a form of solidarity that strengthens cohesion. This was most clearly seen in the conflicts in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where men committed lone or group raреs to show their courage and gain a position in an armed group. It is also inextricably related to the concepts of military courage, domination, aggressiveness and risk-taking. Typically, service members who show learned militaristic masculinity have all gender perception distortions. They are much more likely to hold controversial views on gender, such as the notion that men and women manipulate each other or that women should be "punished" and want to be rареd themselves. The same narratives can be heard from the well-known SSU intercepts, where the occupiers talk about violent crimes. 👁🗨 Another factors that influence the spread of violence are the presence of foreign observers and reliance on foreign allies if they have laws preventing such violence. Russia has a long history of denial and spreading disinformation, hindering international investigations into its own violations of international law. Even the media murdеr of their own wards from the Wagner PMCs is not considered as a kind of problem by the Russian authorities. On the contrary, democratic authorities typically penalize the use of this form of violence, and the case of Ukraine demonstrates how international collaboration helps the military system expand its humanistic laws. Continued under the next photo.