From the founder of Wildberries …
“There are no words to describe all the feelings and emotions caused by the attacks on ordinary people, on our employees, on us, who are simply doing our jobs,” she wrote on Telegram. “But these situations demonstrate the most important thing: we must continue to do what we do for the benefit of people.”
Like I said, that these things were going to the Russian army in significant numbers and that the warehouses bombed included them in significant numbers.
That’s not how international law (or, for that matter, basic morality) works. Zionists use this same rhetoric to justify Israeli war crimes, but it’s wrong then and it’s wrong now. International law (and, again, basic morality) applies to all countries independent of whether anyone else is following it, because bombing civilians is bad period and shouldn’t be done unless there’s no alternative. Charred bodies of innocents aren’t any less abhorrent when they’re Russian; if international law/basic morality only applies when the other side is the Bad Guy™ then we might as well toss the whole damn thing in the trash. Terror bombing was and is bad even when done to Nazis, or we should all be celebrating 9/11.
Stop using the “terrorism” bullshit. The term is next to useless. Generally, as used today, terrorism is when a non-state actor uses violence. That’s it. Police are, by definition, terrorists, but we don’t use the term for that. At the end of the day, war is terrorism. All war. Acting like you can be morally perfect in war is a total misunderstanding of war. When it’s over, the survivors can figure out what was wrong. If Ukraine doesn’t survive then there is nothing to be held accountable for. Survival comes first.
Is this an ideal target? Obviously not. However, there are no ideal targets. There are targets of opportunity. You can choose to pass on an opportunity, but if you do that and it causes more people to die, that’s a mistake. I think this is a fairly good target, because it puts pressure on the people of Russia. In the end, it’s them who are going to have to end this invasion. Putin won’t. They’re going to have to force an end, and they’re going to have to face consequences before they do that. They can end it whenever they want though.
I agree, but I also didn’t say “terrorism;” I used the far more precise term of terror bombing, meaning “the strategic bombing of civilian targets without military value, in the hope of damaging an enemy’s morale.”
There are targets of opportunity, but should have enough military value to make the opportunity worth the moral cost.
Again literally Zionist rhetoric. Is international law (or the basic morality meant to be portrayed by it) just for show or what? Wasn’t killing civilians bad? If “putting pressure on the enemy” is enough justification to bomb something then, again, we should be celebrating 9/11. Otherwise Ukraine has the right to defend itself, but not—barring clear military value—to bomb online retailers. And in any case, this lesson has been learned time and time again since WWII; terror bombing only galvanizes the enemy population and absolutely doesn’t compel surrender. Putin couldn’t ask for better propaganda.