The “what if Putin’s delicate feelings are bruised” style of Russian propaganda is just increasingly absurd at this point, honestly. Ukraine cannot be expected

The “what if Putin’s delicate feelings are bruised” style of Russian propaganda is just increasingly absurd at this point, honestly. Ukraine cannot be expected to put up with these bombers hitting their cities on a rather flimsy theory that damaging the precious bombers might result in more Russian aggression. In practice, Ukraine has significantly reduced Russia’s _capacity_ for such aggression with this move. Russia only has a limited number of working bombers, and they’re irreplaceable.