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Originally Posted by Nippelspanner
While you of course only post this because you can not accept any sort of criticism towards your holy, untouchable country - especially not from some foreigner - the point is not who practiced it first, but rather a hint towards something I mentioned earlier.
The west concentrates on "Russia = bad", while it, for over a decade now, ignores the crimes *someone* commits in the middle east.
I am not sure how what the Luftwaffe over 70 years ago did still matters in that context?
Oh right it doesn't - it is just about blame-shifting as usual. 
What I said isn't wrong - is it?
Bombing those who come to help is a disgusting tactic and surely kills more non-combatants than legit military targets, that is the point and if your only excuse is "but the Nazis!" then I can't help you anyways.
Long story short: Can't blame Russia when 'we' do the same thing. |
It's war. Be enraged or perplexed or whatever about the fact that there is war, if you think you must - but not about the ways and the tools of war once there is a war. War is war.
And it absolutely is nothing different.
War is not the continuing of peace with other means. Judging it by moral standards of peace time, makes no sense. It does not ennoble war, magically, war remaisn to be dirty, and mean, always. There are no "just" wars or "holy" wars - only wars that are needed and wars that are wanted. The first must be fought, the latter must be avoided at all cost. The Russians have a mission, a cause, an objective, so they think. And obviously they do not accept getting distracted from their objective, may there be civilians in the way, may there be diplomats protesting. They do not care. Their objective still is not achieved, and so they keep on bombing until they have achieved it, or got defeated.
Thats why I think they have a better chance to win this their latest military adventure, while the West has turned all its major military wins of the past 40 years into strategic defeats, needlessly: Vietnam, Gulf 2, Afghanistan, Gulf 3 - militarily undefeated, but turned into strategic defeats nevertheless. We excel in loosing wars - despite claimed military superiority.