I completely appreciate that nobody is expected to have full or even the best information, particularly amidst an active warzone and full-blast information war.
But as I've said time and again, this story doesn't feel very new to me; My caution is based on precedent and wilful resistance to the ingrained tendency in most of us (especially the educated class who hold to a Western world view) to give the Western version of events in an international crisis an automatic benefit of the doubt.
We had similar debates in the old nipate about whether Obama could rightly bomb Syria based on the chemical attacks and most people even then assumed Assad was guilty as sin. I need independent investigations to let go of this caution Ive built in my mind whenever the West is involved in one of these things. If the Russians did this, and someone independent says it, I'm all for the ICC or a special tribunal to try those soldiers. But for me, it has to be the UN saying this. Not just the West.
And I fully understand the perspective you're holding to. I'm not saying it's uneducated or anything. You and I just have different biases and approaches.
