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Moscow has been hit by UAVs again at the same building. (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's almost as if Ukraine can actually hit a target -- something Russia has never been able to do. 😃

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

They seem to be hitting schools and hospitals just fine

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Shame.

Do it again.

[–] Sarie 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's the same building, then Ukraine is trying to say that the last attack wasn't intercept at all. Looks like Moscow has a great air defense system protecting it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"Defend your capital or the front line, your choice"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not the "city center", this is the financial district.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Corrected

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

knock, knock..

[–] dulce_3t_decorum_3st 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who's there?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Consequence

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

yeah looks like someone wanting to cash a check, or collect a debt.. something like that..

[–] dulce_3t_decorum_3st 1 points 1 year ago

Consequence who?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, no.

Anyway….

[+] [email protected] -35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These are Russian government offices after close. That's sort of a false equivalence.

[+] [email protected] -27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"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.

[+] [email protected] -25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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[–] PanchoAventuras 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mate, Russia has been bombing civilians since day 1 of the invasion, WTF are you talking about.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] PanchoAventuras 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PanchoAventuras 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By that logic WW2 should have ended with an allied surrender in 1939.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.