pkt on Nostr: What I'm proposing is the conduct of the Allies in WW2. We recognized back then that ...
What I'm proposing is the conduct of the Allies in WW2. We recognized back then that we were fighting an economic war, and freely targeted economic targets of all kinds. Wiping out German and Japanese cities to defeat the Axis was fine; wiping out Russian cities to defeat Russia is also fine.
Saying we were the good guys then, and Ukraine can do the same things now to win, should not be a controversial statement. It is in some circles – when I went to art school some of the teachers were so anti-Western that they were practically engaging in Holocaust denial in their efforts to portray the allies as the bad guys. But those people are nuts.
Re: wounded soldiers, have you actually watched any significant amount of video footage from the war? Dropping grenades on wounded, immobile, Russians is a common activity. There's no secret this is commonly done and it's a topic that gets repeatedly discussed.
Feels to me that your just unwilling to accept that Ukrainians do in fact consider the "laws" of war to not be hard and fast rules that should be adhered to scrupulously at the cost of their own lives.
US troops did that in the war on terror, resulting in tens of thousands killed by restrictive ROEs even with enormous military advantages. Ukrainians don't have that luxury.
Saying we were the good guys then, and Ukraine can do the same things now to win, should not be a controversial statement. It is in some circles – when I went to art school some of the teachers were so anti-Western that they were practically engaging in Holocaust denial in their efforts to portray the allies as the bad guys. But those people are nuts.
Re: wounded soldiers, have you actually watched any significant amount of video footage from the war? Dropping grenades on wounded, immobile, Russians is a common activity. There's no secret this is commonly done and it's a topic that gets repeatedly discussed.
Feels to me that your just unwilling to accept that Ukrainians do in fact consider the "laws" of war to not be hard and fast rules that should be adhered to scrupulously at the cost of their own lives.
US troops did that in the war on terror, resulting in tens of thousands killed by restrictive ROEs even with enormous military advantages. Ukrainians don't have that luxury.