2022-08-29 at 9:16 PM UTC
Number13
African Astronaut
[dispute my snotty-nosed seagull]
Didn't they just cut it off from the ukr grid too?
2022-08-30 at 6:08 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
speaking of, the AFU tried a counterattack at Kherson in 5 (?) directions, got obliterated
2022-08-30 at 6:11 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
also I don't understand why US media is openly bragging about their human shields (ROC) strategy, it just means once it's over Russia can't be accused of targeting civilians because there's ample evidence that civilian populations have been armed and weaponised
2022-08-30 at 11:53 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra
also I don't understand why US media is openly bragging about their human shields (ROC) strategy, it just means once it's over Russia can't be accused of targeting civilians because there's ample evidence that civilian populations have been armed and weaponised
Maybe if civilian forces are fighting back, they don't want to be invaded?
How can humans use themselves as shields?
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2022-09-02 at 9:52 AM UTC
aldra
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Polish news is among the most pro-Western and anti-Russian so it makes sense it'd get promoted
2022-09-02 at 9:59 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
Originally posted by Steven
Maybe if civilian forces are fighting back, they don't want to be invaded?
How can humans use themselves as shields?
entirely misses the point of the post - arming civilians makes them legitimate military targets, which makes claims of Russian forces targeting civilians moot. Bragging about it makes such claims very difficult to take seriously. I get the feeling this is just a PR exercise though; that they're pushing this 'ROC' meme to get people to stop referring to it as Volkssturm.
You might have been able to make the claim that civilians 'wanted' to fight back during the first or second mobilisation as opposed to the fifth they're on at the moment, literally snatching women and elderly men off the street, but even then it was not optional and you had a huge swathe of fighting-age men fleeing both East and West
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2022-09-02 at 10:22 AM UTC
The Director of the IAEA is at Zaphorizhiya NPP and they are establishing a presence there to provide independent news of what is going on, which is good as hopefully it means the Ukrainians can't blame the Russians for shelling the power plant (or vice versa, unlikely as the Russians shelling their own power plant might seem). Most bureaucrats would be too afraid to go to a place that is being shelled.
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2022-09-02 at 10:56 AM UTC
Wariat
Marine/Preteen Biologist
yea but aldra they claim they dont want western ifnluence meddling in their affairs f beign anti lgtbs and such no?
