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[-] wopalopa@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

my assumption is that generally you dont want to target anything that dont hold strategic value. missiles are v expensive. any misfire that affect civilian either has been shot down, dud or unreliable intel.

i wont say that certain nation actors that see terrorizing civilian is not a strategic value but in a long term if they dont see any effect they will stop doing it. i personally dont see any benefit even if i purposely demonize them.

case and point. the US bad intel striking school is a blunder that rallying the iranian to their government. im sure the US doesnt want that, the russian is well versed in this and undoubtly understand more than i do.

no matter how bad the ukrainians want to strike st petersburg or moscow. IIRC they hold back to minimize the martyr effect and combined with their arsenal basically given by westerner with a caveat.

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 18 points 7 hours ago

In other words: yes, Russia is doing this entirely on purpose. There's no "accidentally" hitting Romania instead, etc.

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