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If you start from the assumption that the war wasn't necessary then you are correct to point out that leveling residential areas also wasn't necessary. However
by caoilte 4y ago
If you start from the assumption that the war wasn't necessary then you are correct to point out that leveling residential areas also wasn't necessary.
However, we wouldn't have re-occupied cities in Iraq that resisted without leveling them and Russia wouldn't have conquered Mariupol without leveling the parts of the city that contained entrenched defenders.
That's the awful thing about urban warfare. Luckily we're not at genocide yet, though.
- watwut 4y agoEven if was was necessary, leveling residential areas of major city was not. But, that war was not necessary in the first place. Both war and the destruction of city were optional and deliberate. > However, we wouldn't have re-occupied cities in Iraq that resisted without leveling them and Russia wouldn't have conquered Mariupol without leveling the parts of the city that contained entrenched defenders. Both are crimes and mass murders of civilians. Neither was necessary. > That's the awful thing about urban warfare. Luckily we're not at genocide yet, though. Who is that "we"? USA in Iraq did not committed genocide. Russia in Ukraine is committing one now.
- caoilte 4y agoWhat Russia is doing is evil. But if you call it genocide you do a cruel dis-service to the millions killed in Rwanda, the holocaust and even Ukraine during the holodomor.