Seriously. All that shit about refusing to surrender while conscripting every adult male makes me fucking sick. He's creating a legion of human shields is what he's doing. Because even though they'd be classified as insurgents, if just one is shot by a Russian it'll be an international incident that "Russia just murdered civilians!"
Speaking of which, that's something I haven't really been seeing yet. If just one child or babushka got shelled, it would be front page news all over the world. Their names would be immortalized a la Floyd... yet we're a week into this and I haven't heard anything of the sort. A quick search has all the major rags say there are up to 1,200 civilian casualties (400 of which were fatalities). For comparison, the month-long battle to take Fallujah in 2004 had 600 civilian fatalities officially.
Seriously. All that shit about refusing to surrender while conscripting every adult male makes me fucking sick. He's creating a legion of human shields is what he's doing. Because even though they'd be classified as insurgents, if just one is shot by a Russian it'll be an international incident that "Russia just murdered civilians!"
Speaking of which, that's something I haven't really been seeing yet. If just one child or babushka got shelled, it would be front page news all over the world. Their names would be immortalized a la Floyd... yet we're a week into this and I haven't heard anything of the sort. A quick search has all the major rags say there are up to 1,200 civilian casualties (400 of which were fatalities). For comparison, the month-long battle to take Fallujah in 2004 had 600 civilian fatalities officially.