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> by choosing the same civilian targets not sure what the point of this propaganda is? ukraine doesn't shoot rockets at appartments. hitting (dual use) energ
by nubg 6mo ago
> by choosing the same civilian targets
not sure what the point of this propaganda is?
ukraine doesn't shoot rockets at appartments.
hitting (dual use) energy infrastructure
is a completely different level then targeting civilian homes.
- ivan_gammel 6mo agoNobody except Israel is setting civilian homes as targets for their rockets. Not all energy infrastructure is even remotely „dual use“ (and this label is itself propaganda used to justify strikes on non-military targets).
- idiotsecant 6mo agoAll Russian infrastructure of all types would be perfectly safe tomorrow if they just stopped brutally invading their neighbors. Let's be plain and clear here: the Russian moral position lies somewhere 10 miles below the floor of the deepest ocean trench. The moral high road is pretty easy to achieve.
- ivan_gammel 6mo agoI don‘t think „moral high roads“ have any relevance in context of this discussion. If such conversation triggers you, try to breathe and think why first.
- idiotsecant 6mo agoYes, I find that quite often morality becomes temporarily irrelevant when it's inconvenient for the party acting immorally. Nevertheless, this is the one of the vanishingly few conflicts where there is a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes the universe gives us a break from endless grey areas. This is one of those! If you find the idea of an autonomous sovereign state defending it's borders 'triggering' I might suggest some soothing jazz and a warm milk. All the best
- queenkjuul 6mo agoUS seems to have hit more than a few apartment blocks in Tehran. But you're mostly right
- ivan_gammel 6mo agoThis has happened in all ongoing conflicts but in only a few cases it is known to be intentional (Israeli strikes). I don‘t think USA or Iran does target residential blocks, but just like everyone else they may act on bad intelligence or it may be accidental. And the reason is not just rules of engagement - such targets simply have negative value for attacker.
- queenkjuul 6mo agoDual use is nonsense, all power plants and highways are "dual use", hell so are farms, water treatment, dams... It's a term used exclusively to justify war crimes.