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So civilian targets are OK when Ukraine is doing it?
These are Russian government offices after close. That's sort of a false equivalence.
He is not wrong, if the military wants to play fair, keep the wars at military forces.
"Play fair" would imply each side doing the same thing, so Ukraine should bomb the fuck out of the city? Them hitting a few priority targets in the city is much less bad that what Russia is doing. As far as I'm aware, these didn't actually kill any civilians.
Alright, "bring justice" is the words.
This war better ends quick before it derails into bombing civilians.
Mate, Russia has been bombing civilians since day 1 of the invasion, WTF are you talking about.
If the "good guys", i take it as Ukrainians, go bombs the f*** out of civilians, then the Ukraine would have detached itself from justice. If it happens, it is 100% about alignment, they have no borderline at this point except try not to act like terrorism.
Now, what if you dont bomb civilians, then it is about justice. Justice for purging the Russian military as led by Putin who did bomb the civilians.
I am not Ukrainian, but let me put it this way: A terriorist group bombed the civilians, including my family, then another (terriorist) group asks or forces me to join. After I joined, they dont bomb the terrorists, I join the group to bomb the families as they did to myself instead? This is the f*** im talking about.
Ok, I’ll take you at face value and not asume ill intent/trolling:
I get it, it’s easy to get dragged down into the mud in a dirty fight (mud being killing civilians indiscriminately) and it would damage the “good guy” image that Ukraine has developed.
But I don’t believe the restraint Ukraine has shown until now is purely for show, to maintain a public image. The kind of restraint they show every day is a mark of a society willing to suffer just to be the better person. And I definitely don’t think that bombing empty government buildings at night with minimal collateral damage is a show of them willing to get dirty after a year and a half of taking shit from Russia in the face.
And I mean piles and piles of shit from Russia, where probably less than 10% of missiles/drones yeeted at Ukraine had actual military targets, and all the rest happily hit residential buildings to the applause of the Russian public.
Lastly, I do find it ironic that countries like the US to “demand” minimal collateral damage from Ukraine to Russian civilians after the literal hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afgani civilians they have killed in the last couple of decades.
So fuck the US for that, fuck Russia for what they’re doing now, and deep admiration to Ukraine for actually sticking to the values that we (west) say we represent.
The Russians and Russian government are two very different things, the fact that they don't have democracy reflects the irrelevance even more.
Fuck Putin.
What's your source for the US killing hundreds of thousands of civilians? Seems way too high unless you're including indirect deaths, like from loss of critical infrastructure.
Fair enough:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
(Check the surveys in the article for details, ranges from low 100.000 to highs of a million+)
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2021/WarDeathToll
(This one is a bit lower at 200-250.000 for Iraq and Afghanistan)
Bear in mind that I’m not in any way justifying Russia’s attitude, my reference to these number was more to illustrate the fact that we’re holding Ukraine to higher standards than anyone else, even if agree with those standards. And Ukraine is delivering, which is impressive.
Thank you. Even all these years later it's confusing and uncertain.
Per Brown, 200-250k number total civilian deaths from violence in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to Lancet 31% of deaths due to violence were due to coalition forces, in Iraq. So, about 67k total in both wars if these numbers are combined. But with a huge number of violent deaths unexplained, maybe coalition forces directly killed over 100k total. Including indirect deaths it's probably accurate to say "hundreds of thousands"
Shame on the US for invading Iraq, and shame on Russia for invading Ukraine.
this war began with the murder of countless civilians in 2014, and Russia has continuously murdered Ukrainian civilians every day for nearly 10 years now.
Justice would be the utter annihilation of Russia as both a nation and a state. Russia should be glad every day that the world doesn't want justice.
By that logic WW2 should have ended with an allied surrender in 1939.
WW2 ended bc of nuclear weapon, it was 100% the cause, not peace, not justice. The US could have bombed the leaders or military forces in Japan, and I assure you the world we have now is going to be the same. Japan would surrender in the same way, everything same except less innocent soul be taken.
Japan surrendered not bc of the civilians, it was bc the military was completely fucked. Same goes for Germany which didn't have nuclear weapons ready at the time.
They have zero regard of civilians, the world kill with racism and raid with naplam. It was a joke to those leaders at the time if you talk about civilians.
why should one side strictly obey the rules of chess when the other side has kicked over the board and pulled a gun? at this point, playing fair would be Ukraine engaging in a full-scale invasion of russia, kidnapping russian children and shipping them back to Ukraine.