Russia has vowed punishment for the western actors who helped plan or supply weapons for this act.
Escalation danger continues to exist and I worry what the neo-cons puppeting Biden around will do if faced with any kind of slap to the face or humiliation as they're already freaking out about losing Ukraine in an election year.
Kind of ironic that they could've just let the peace negotiations play out, take their piece of the Ukrainian pie and have the average American voter forget that Ukraine even exists by the time election season rolls around.
"Yes, but have you considered that they are infact, orcs. And thusly deserve to be slaughtered because like our great thought leader Gary Gygax said: Nits make lice."
They cry about a made up genocide while trying their damndest to start a real one. Ukraine has been salivating at the thought of blowing up Russian civillians since the war started.
Did they even, like, attempt to provide an explanation regarding what they actually wanted to target in the first place? Even if it's complete bullshit? Or did they just hit the city center and cheer about it?
All four zones that were hit were known civilian centers. One may be a coincidence, four is a solid pattern. On the other hand, if you are a psychopathic NAFO freak you will still claim that a Christmas market full of civilians was some kind of Russian military base in disguise. Or you will say that Russia did it to themselves. Either way you will cheer for dead Russians.
I really can't stand Ukraine. Because it's how blatant it is that they're a Nazi country but we;re being told constantly that they're adorable little snowflakes and wouldn't hurt a fly (unless it was Russian). The worst part is that people believe it too, at least with Is*ael, people know their government is full of shit but too many people truly believe that these terrorists are heroes.
Cool your jets, man. There's no such thing as a "Nazi country", only a Nazi state. Ukraine is pretty much a fascist state, both from the materialist and ideological perspective. More specifically, it was Nazified by the US to be its attack dog against Russia. But I can assure you, there are loads of people in Ukraine who do not want to die for US imperialism and the interests of Western finance capital.
I agree with the sentiment that Ukraine isn't a "Nazi country," but rather a country infested by a Nazi state, paramilitaries, and ideology. That said there definitely are "Nazi countries"- those countries whose very founding ethos is genocidal settler-colonialism, whose definition is one of the supremacy of one group and the dispossession and debasement of the others. The USA, Canada, Australia, and Israel all are prime examples of this- there is no redeeming any of these countries, without not merely a change of state- but a change of the notion of what the country stands for altogether, and a righting of former wrongs to the genuine best of their abilities. For such countries, it's not merely an issue of the state- it's an issue of their very reason for existence altogether, and only indigenism of some sort can remotely fix it.
Too late. Ukro supporters on twitter are already saying Russia did it. Just like they do everytime a bunch of civilians in the center of Donetsk get shelled.
The Kiev regime doesn't care about its civilians. This was retaliation for the very painful strikes on AFU military assets that Russia inflicted a few days ago, including yet again obliterating important Ukrainian air defense systems, hitting the few air fields Ukraine has left where it can launch long range strikes from, and wiping out a bunch of logistical nodes full of gear.
The more that Russia cripples Ukraine's military capabilities the more the Ukronazis will try to take it out on the softest possible targets which are the only ones they can still reliably hit. This usually means civilians. It's how they boost morale internally after a major defeat and create a distraction for the international audience while showing their sponsors that they are "still in the fight".
That's just pathetic. It's like HAMAS's unguided rockets - they just don't have any resources to fire the actual rockets. Can't really blame them. Russia really should just evacuate the civilians out of there. Hiding behind them or using their death as a justification for war is below what this country should stand for.
No, you don't understand! Russians fight pure and with honour when they bomb. Ukraine has to be punished by more bombing! As the wise people on the Russian TV say: by all means necessary should they bomb civilians, so their spirit is broken. Even nuclear weapons.