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This is in the context of fighting Russia, and current events demonstrate that the legitimacy of a target is moot. But of course highways, infrastructure, is a
by marvin 3y ago
This is in the context of fighting Russia, and current events demonstrate that the legitimacy of a target is moot.
But of course highways, infrastructure, is a relevant thing to destroy in war.
- hajile 3y agoDo you have any evidence to back this up? Look at Civilian vs Soldier dead for various major wars. Only ONE war has WAY more soldiers killed than civilians. If Russia is trying to target Ukrainians, they are doing a worse job than any war you can name. Civilians Soldiers WW1 10M 7M WW2 50-55M 21-25M Korea 2.7M 0.8M Vietnam 2.5M 1.1M Kosovo 1-5K 0.5-1K Afghanistan 500K[1] 100K Iraq 135K[2] 40K Ukraine[3] 9K 65-250K [1] I don't trust US numbers in Afghanistan. There are prominent cases like the US claiming 25 casualties in a village when there was video evidence of many more bodies not mentioning all the bodies vaporized by the bomb. [2] Another definite lie. Studies done in 2004 and 2006 published in Lancet showed around 1M excess deaths of which almost all were directly attributable to the war and at least 31% were directly attributable to US forces. Who knows how many people died in all the conflicts that followed in the next 15 years. The US officially rejects these studies as flawed, but the British MoD considered it to be robust and adhering to best practices. Further, it used the same methodology and team the US considered to be stellar when doing the exact same thing the exact same way in the Congo. [3] From the Ukrainian MoD and/or Ukraine-leaning groups, so the likely bias is to overstate Civilian deaths, overstate Russian KIA, and understate Ukrainian KIA.