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First!
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Putin announced reprisals. Dictators are particularly viscious when they think their own survival is at stake.
Come on, man. Are they going after electrical infrastrusture buried in playgrounds and housed in apartments? What do you think the purpose of day 1 attacks on electricity are?
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Iām not a military guy but better reasons to knock out electricity at the start of a war, especially if you hope to win quickly, might include: psychological (āshock and aweā), to disrupt command and control, and to make logistics more difficult. Itās not primarily to terrorize the general populace or make their lives more difficult.
Todayās attacks come seven months into a war Putin is losing. Heās hitting places hundreds of miles from where fighting is going on. Heās doing it immediately after an event that personally embarrassed him. Electrical or not, heās going after targets that arenāt going to gain him a military advantage to generate fear and misery and satisfy his own and his supporterās desire for revenge. Iām sure as hell not going to take Putinās word on targeting priorities when heās bombed churches, schools, apartment buildings, and shelters from one end of Ukraine to the other.
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and Syria and Chechnya. Itās almost like thereās a pattern here.
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Yeah! Whatās so hard to understand about illegitimate wars having legitimate targets? OTOH, I see an opportunity to justify a bunch of shitty things I did when I was a stupid sociopathic pre-teen.
Maybe thereās something in the AM thread or something but this seems unprovoked and pretty unchill.
Yeah, 6 months of Putin apologia is pretty unchill; read what heās saying in his last few posts and if youāre not repulsed to the point of saying āfuck offā, I canāt help you out.
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Except that Russia is engaged in an illegal war of aggression and Ukraine is not, and while kudos to you for admitting this, that is highly relevant to the analysis.
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Keedās idiotic trolling is easier to ignore if you just replace the word Putin in your mind with Hitler. Theyāre basically equal on the evil scale.
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Because there are no ālegitimate targetsā when you are conducting an illegal war of aggression. Itās an illegal war of aggression!
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Bombing a kindergarten is obviously far worse? Beating the shit out of someone in a bar fight and murdering your wife in cold blood are both illegal, but one is worse than the other.
Edit: This conversation should probably be moved to the Ukrapto thread though.
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Actually, under the Geneva Conventions, Iām pretty sure it is.
It was a difficult decision but after much thought and an enormous quantity of soul searching I arrived at the conclusion that a predawn raid on a bridge over which countless munitions and troops had come to invade my country was more legitimate than targeting multiple city centre installations at rush hour in a country Iāve illegally invaded.
Touch and go, but I did get there in the end.
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Outrageous to compare Putin to Hitler and also Iām against arming Ukranians to prevent their own genocide because Putin might respond by ending humanity in a nuclear Holocaust.
I am very smart!
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This should be excised to the other thread, but this is totally out to lunch. The Geneva Conventions donāt even address the idea of aggressive war, which is prohibited elsewhere in international law. They are solely concerned with the conduct of war. Do you really think international law should hold soldiers criminally liable for war crimes for conducting legitimate military operations because they failed to figure out that the rationale for war they were given by their government was bullshit? Like just execute every single Iraq War soldier for war crimes? Wat.
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