As this article says, Zelenskyy has said this on Twitter:
We are entirely justified in our responses against Russia’s oil industry, military production, and those directly responsible for committing war crimes against Ukraine and Ukrainians.
Do you agree with him?
Yes, they were already justified 4 years ago.
More like 12 years ago.
78 years and a day, at least.
MSM out here trying to frame it like sane and rational people are mulling over “hmm, if Russia is illegally striking Ukrainian fuel facilities, are Ukraine justified in doing the same back, and proportionally?”.
yes and I would also justify sabotaging the infrastructure from which the EU buys fuel from Russia, even if such things directly affect me.
Oh yeah… If I were Ukraine, I’d fail a lot… but only because I’d be busy testing all the different ways I can stress their logistics. My goal would be to cause complete havoc for the Russians, including public outcry. Russia, why can’t you feed anybody? Russia, why can you power your homes? Russia, you’d best look down rather than over at me… your public base is rallying against you
I’d destroy communications, I’d find ways to make the Russians not trust one another — fear of spies. I’d poison food meant for troops, if I could, so that they can’t even trust their own meals.
I’d have some of the best deals for defects. Turn on Russia, you can leave the war immediately. We’ll even report that we killed you, help you go back to Russia under an alias, or even help you get your family out of Russia. Can be built from a task force of defects, literally just helping other defects.
I’d also start attacking Truth itself within Russia. In essence, let’s see what all this hype has been about — using AI fueled propaganda at scale. Nobody will know what the state of affairs are, because every truth will drown in the sea of plausibility. Russia will struggle to control the narrative, and they will have many more problems on their hands.
I’d also start a division that targets the oligarchy. Either recruit them, exploit them, or make them fear for their lives/money.
The last thing I would do is try and make this a fair fight. Fuck traditional warfare.
Yes. Very justified. They’re also justified to do a whole lot more.
Do you not?
I absolutely agree with Zelenskyy that Ukraine is justified in hitting Russian oil infrastructure and military infrastructure, until the Russian military withdraws entirely from Ukraine.
Unfortunately though there are tankies on Lemmy who believe that every single Ukrainian is an evil Nazi who deserves to be murdered by the benevolent Russian regime. That’s why I asked “do you agree”.
Gotcha :)
What? Yes, of course they are. what a fucking question.
Maybe if Russia would just STOP then Ukraine would not feel the need to destroy them.
Here’s a better question: If Russia stops NOW is Ukraine justified in continuing agressions?
Follow up question: For how long?
Until they’ve thrown out the invaders.
Russia isn’t going to stop now. We have other things to ponder other than your fantasy question.
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Make them a burning refinery masquerading as a country.
