• Cromalin [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Does Russia not target civilians? Everything else seems right, though I don't know if Russia's approach to nazism is any better.

    • MendingBenjamin [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      They do target civilians, yes. I’ve seen people try to downplay this, but the explanations are indistinguishable from apologia for how the US dehumanizes people’s deaths as “collateral damage” or “combatant deaths”. If anyone wants to tell me about how Azov is hiding amongst civilians, yeah no shit. That doesn’t mean the people around them are guilty by proximity.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        If anyone wants to tell me about how Azov is hiding amongst civilians, yeah no shit.

        It's literally the explanation Israel offers when it targets civilians.

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They're hitting residential areas because that's where Azov have set up artillery, but they're not hitting civilian infrastructure like water treatment plants the way NATO did in Yugoslavia and Iraq.

      • AverageStudent [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        tbf, not as brutal as NATO is a pretty low bar. They are certainly hitting civilians and calling it collateral damage like the yankees

        • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          “I know it’s hard … to swallow that the carnage and destruction could be much worse than it is,” says the [US intelligence] analyst. “But that’s what the facts show. This suggests to me, at least, that Putin is not intentionally attacking civilians, that perhaps he is mindful that he needs to limit damage in order to leave an out for negotiations.”

          https://archive.ph/eV2VU