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Credibly establish that for every strike they make against your power grid you'll make several against theirs.

• amelius 2y ago
  In view of what others said here, that would be answering war crimes with more war crimes.
  • amenhotep 2y ago
    "attacking electrical infrastructure is a war crime" is quite a woolly and interpretable thing. It's not blanket, there are questions of purpose and proportionality. If, for example, you strike a single civilian substation because by doing so you take out the power supply to a critical defence radar and are then able to attack an otherwise defended military target, then it's hard to argue that's a war crime. Any more than bombing civilian infrastructure like roads and railways. Doing it as part of a deliberate campaign of terror whose main purpose is to harm and intimidate civilians is probably a war crime, although it's very easy to fig leaf it if there's any way that attacking the infrastructure impedes war production directly. Doing it proportionately in retaliation is less likely to be.
  • EasyMark 2y ago
    I suspect we may see a tit-for-tat rider added to modern warfare since the big guys no longer bother trying to live within the spirit of the Geneva conventions. Russia is literally raping and geocoding all through their controlled areas of Ukrainian territory. Saw a video just last week were they ordered POWs to lie on the ground and they just shot them for no reason, this is common place. Why should Ukraine just throw up their hands and say “nothing we can do!”