Baloney. Actively participating in a war means you aren’t a civilian and when your defense strategy is to hide in civilian infrastructure then civilians die. No pearl clutching required.
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Children are not taking up arms.
He has them for decoration
Maybe. I have no way of knowing.
Where do the civilians to whom Ukraine is distributing arms living,
What if fire at Russians is from civilian areas?
Watsup, at the moment things are a little too fluid to draw conclusions.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. Zelensky conscripted every man 18 and up and their women are making molotovs. He turned his civilian population into combatants.
See post #29. You haven’t a clue about the Geneva Convention. You prefer making excuses for the war criminal Putin. You must be a Republican.
The truth isn’t an “excuse.” It’s just inconvenient to your ranting.
Geneva Convention forbids targeting of armed civilians?
Correct. I am a Republican. Worse, a certified Trumpist.
What is your big deal, independent countries get invaded all the time.
That is a concern of many, Putin will lash out in frustration. This is not going according to the play book. Putin underestimated his enemy on the ground and the economic will of the West to draw a line in the sand.
But Mr Bank's analogy is on the spot. The relationship between the much misunderstood Russia and his various exes- the bear is not monogamous, the Russian bear has a harem- has been a fractious one. The bear loves excessively, and is faulty in his expressions of love. The bear has a thing for Ukrainian salmon. He will not be denied excellent Ukrainian salmon. After a good feast on a load of Ukrainian salmon the bear will drink deeply from the Dnieper.
The problem is what you aren’t grasping. When the enemy embeds itself among civilians and civilian infrastructure the United States blows it all up and writes it off as collateral damage. We spent 20 years doing exactly that in the Middle East. Why are you howling about Putin doing the same thing? Putin is not directing the Ukranian military to use civilians and civilian infrastructure as a shield against aerial assault and artillery. That is the decision of Zelensky and his generals.
It isn't acceptable to bomb civilian infrastructure regardless of whether you're the US or Russia. Regardless of whether there are soldiers hiding there or not. It was bad when we did it and it's bad when Russia does it.
It’s war and people need to get over the fact that war doesn’t mean meeting on an open field to take turns shooting at each other and break for tea at noon anymore. Zelensky and his military have chosen to fight this war by hiding amongst civilians - whatever that means in a nation of conscripts. In the 21st century, everyone would rather live than die a gentleman who abided by the rules of war.
But Ukraine doesn't have much choice in the matter, do they? Russia has forced them into the position of defending their cities. Any civilian casualties are the fault of Russia, for instigating the war in the first place.