• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    26 days ago

    Putin and Russia shouldn’t be confident that Ukraine won’t attack

    A parade is still a parade, an attack would likely kill civilians attending and definitely be a warcrime.

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                26 days ago

                With regular bombs targeting military factories and logistical hubs at night? No, because those are military targets and there was minimal risk to civilians. Firebombing residential areas? Absolutely.

                The worst part is, killing shittons of civilians isn’t even useful. When Germany shifted bombing from airfields and military targets to terror-bombing london, they gave the airfields and factories breathing room to rebuild the RAF and eventually win the battle of Britain. Murdering 20% of the population of Korea north of the 38th didn’t allow the US to push up, poisoning the center of vietnam to cause a famine and sending B-52s to carpet bomb the north did nothing to break the Vietnamese resistance. Bombing hospitals and weddings in Afghanistan didn’t make the Afghan people decide to stop resisting.

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        26 days ago

        Disrupting a parade with colored smoke is not a war crime. Blowing up a bunch of civilians at a parade is.