• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    7 months ago

    Civilians die in war. That’s very different from targeting civilians. Putin made that choice when he chose war. If you want Ukraine to avoid all civilian casualties, they’re going to be stuck doing what they’ve been doing all along, fighting a war of attrition on their own territory.

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      7 months ago

      Sure, I get that, but if you start bombing civilian infrastructure, you just harm innocent civilians - in particular, the most vulnerable people - and you don’t really do anything to erode public support for the war. If anything it builds public support - it gives the people an enemy in you, rather than in their leaders.

      I assure you that bombing Russian civilian infrastructure isn’t going to make the war go any faster. Providing equipment, training and personnel to the war effort and focusing on the military targets in the actual war zone is what would make the war end more quickly.