YouTuber Ethan Klein calls for bombing of NRA conference
(thepostmillennial.com)
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October of 2014, according to the FT. https://archive.ph/mPX5r
Bragging about it seems to confirm that they did. If Putin had said this, it would be front-page news for months.
But it's OK when their allies do it - anything is OK if the friends of the West do it.
I doubt it, political leaders do not care about us ordinary folk. Only if they can use us.
So it was followed by more of the ceasefire, except the places where the Russians kept attacking saying the ceasefire agreement didn't cover these (Donetsk Airport zone chiefly). But yeah, outrageous. Words are violence.
Mariupol was hit in January 2015. I don't know what they aimed at, if anything. At Kramatorsk next month they targeted (and mostly missed) its militarized airport that served as an HQ. It was during the Debaltseve offensive. Debaleteve itself got it much worse. There was no response in kind actually.
Clearly specifying your intent to commit crime against humanity while shelling civilian areas seems like it is damning, but unfortunately, there is the friend-enemy distinction again.
You may ask yourself why I have no trouble at all condemning the bad stuff Russia does, but you have trouble condemning this sort of thing.
By only responding in kind, in the sort of "sow winds reap whirlwind" speech by Bomber Harris, except only as populist rehtoric to some local people wanting revenge and not actual intent.
I am not sure what you even mean. But I am sure that if supposed retaliation justifies bombing civilians, the Russians believe they're absolutely justified in what they are doing.