• Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    Attacks on factories supplying war materials to a belligerent party in a conflict has always been legal.

    If Russia was going to do it, they would have done so already.

    Further, the moving of NATO specialists into Ukraine of course makes them legitimate targets, but that only matters if Russia has the ability to accurately strike wherever it is they are being hosted. Unless these classes are being held on the frontline, Russia has demonstrated no capability to do so.

    Hot air like this only serves to make the speaker look less credible.

    • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      Russia has consistently hit specific buildings in Lviv, they have hypersonic missiles. They took out the Reddit volunteer army almost instantly in Western Ukraine. Russia can hit whatever they want inside Ukraine, they have a self-imposed muzzle on. Medvedev's role is attack dog, Putin's role is restrained and sensible administrator. They are both playing their role.

    • Buchenstr@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      If Russia was going to do it, they would have done so already.

      Russia has shown incredible restraint within this war already, many of the attacks that Ukraine did successfully on russian soil always relayed on western ISR to conduct its operations and maneuvers, had this been an actual war, instead of a Proxy conflict, these satellites would've been destroyed already. It show's more responsiblilty to Russians officials rather than incompetency.

      Further, the moving of NATO specialists into Ukraine of course makes them legitimate targets, but that only matters if Russia has the ability to accurately strike wherever it is they are being hosted. Unless these classes are being held on the frontline, Russia has demonstrated no capability to do so.

      Russia ISR has increased dramatically over this past year, had you said this in 2022 your claim may have been believable (albeit heavily skewed, and without proper analysis on russia's future war development and it's arsenal) but to say this in 2023? Where russia has not only demonstrated its capabilities to strike targets deep within Ukraine, but also is now ramping up new ways to strike within the country? It's simply absurd to claim this, as you will have to deny all the successful strikes which have annihilated multiples NATO HQs, Airfields, Military Factories, and even the SBU Headquarters! How can you say something like this when there's so much evidence which literally proves you wrong? And before you even try to diss russia's strike capability, america's was even worse with the scuds!

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      This is how russia fires its missiles, does that seem like incompetency to you? Because to me it looks exactly what it looks like, russian missiles are hitting targets behind AA defences, and throwing off western ISR which tracts where these missiles might go.

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      Hot air like this only serves to make the speaker look less credible.

      Medvedev is not constrained by being a head of state, nor even a head of government, while yes his temper is brash and he speaks very, well weirdly lest just put it that way, he's not imprudent, unlike some actual western leaders, which have demonstrated their complete lack of interest in the future. His point stands, western leaders are fools, they cannot win this war, yet the seem to drag it out for no other purpose, if their plan was to starve Russia of money, they wouldn't be buying as much Russian oil as they had been before the war. Simply put, they want to win the war, without having to sanction russia properly, it's an embarrassing way to contain a 'pariah' nation.

    • lorty@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      Legitimate targets or not, avoiding escalation is more strategically important for Russia than destroying a few production lines in europe.

    • pipedpiper@lemmygrad.ml
      hexagon
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      9 months ago

      Bro , haven't you checked the blast wave in Kramatorsk ? There are regular UAV lancet flights in Odessa , Kharkiv. Russians are not playing around , if you bring them into a corner they can push the holy buttons.