PPP

It’s totally fucked how Putin pud polishers will maintain that legitimate use of legal military weapons on uniformed soldiers is a war crime while the bombing of hospitals by Russia is totally fine and not a war crime.

Hospital shouldn’t have tried to join NATO…twice.

Unfriendly Fire for Effect

This is why you’re morally a monster if you support Russia in the war. Note for the very, very dense: This is Russia’s own forces firing on Russian soldiers because they are attempting surrender.

Ian Welsh, get yo’ dumb ass over there and get you some of this.

Morality

Anyone who supports Russia in the war against Ukraine is a moral monster and really should go over and participate in one of Putin’s meat waves.

Those are also the same ignoramuses who believe sinking a civilian ship is fine, but it’s a war crime to attack enemy troops with legal weapons. Not only are they morally repugnant, they are really fucking dumb. Terrible combination.

Guide

This, however, was an actual war crime committed by Russia. These deaths were the result of a deliberate and targeted missile attack on a non-military civilian residential target 100km from the front with a guided missile — meaning it was intentional.

So now you fucking clowns know the difference.

War Vibes

And shooting retreating soldiers isn’t a war crime either. If they’re not surrendering, they are valid targets. What is a war crime is not based on vibes or feelings; it has an actual definition.

Also, yes, I would say that about Russians. Though I very much hope Ukraine prevails so we do not have to fight in Poland or the Baltics in 2032, the Russian army would be fucking foolish not to shoot retreating Ukrainian soldiers right in the back. As already noted, that is not and never has been a war crime. It is simply how war is conducted if one wants to win.

People get angry that words have meanings and that what’s true or not is not just based on vague notions of propriety picked up from TikTok. Too bad for them.

Disorg

Russian assaults are all so disorganized. I do wonder, though, in the era of drones and ubiquitous battlefield surveillance, would more organization even matter? Not without good EW I guess.

In the future, the army with the most drones that are the least jammable wins….

Kablooey

FYI China could (and likely will) be able to do this in war with many of our devices.

Those explosions if it’s not obvious are not trivial, either.

Walk

I’ve watched dozens of videos of Russian BMPs in active combat and most of them never even fire their main gun. Know why? Because they have no ammo. Sure, Russia might “win” on sheer numbers, but only after losing a million or more people.

So much for that three-day limited Special Military Operation that Ian Welsh and Putin (blood brothers) insisted would be a cakewalk. That anyone listens to that clown anymore is sad and inexplicable.

Which exact clown am I talking about in that last sentence? Does it matter?

Striker

I don’t usually embed Twitter stuff as who knows when it will disappear (just take too-large screenshots), but that is hella precise. It says “airstrike” but with what? I know the Ukrainians probably won’t release that but the explosion was fairly contained and had no pyro at all. My guess is that it was a bunker-penetrating bomb with minimal explosive yield to bring the building down but not do a lot of collateral damage.

But nice strike. Wonder what platform that came off of.