he is not giving them props, he is stating a fact. One that is bound to change IF this war drags on which Ukraine and NATO both know and want to happen. What matters is mitigating the death and ending this, and so it behooves us to point a hell of a lot of blame at the people telling Ukrainians to throw molotovs at tanks and that there are russian spies everywhere and to shoot them

I'm not minimising the fact that there's been civilian casualties, of course there has. It's a war and it's horrible. I've been really emphatically upset and disturbed by the violence against and risk to ordinary people throughout these threads. I dropped off blankets and two good sleeping bags at a donation point via a clothing bank that is sending stuff to Ukrainian refugees stuck at border crossings and so on.

But I am explicitly talking about the tactics used and the gulf between the reality and the rhetoric. And in that sense I admit that no, I don't see why the Western media and governments at least are calling out the brutality against civilians. It's not based on the reality, they don't remotely actually give a shit, and they've always cheered it on and made excuses when the West does far, far worse.