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The thing is, there is an extremely simple way to stop those and any attacks: get out.
It's not terrorism when it's a major state actor and they're not hiding their involvement. That's just war.
The bridge is a legitimate military target as it is used as a supply route
Uhm, no, based on your definition not even the official 9/11 story's Al-Quaida would be considered terrorists because they supposedly admitted to what they were doing:
FBI's terrorism definitions:
International terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups who are inspired by, or associated with, designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored).
Domestic terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.
Encyclopedia Britannica:
terrorism, the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective. Terrorism has been practiced by political organizations with both rightist and leftist objectives, by nationalistic and religious groups, by revolutionaries, and even by state institutions such as armies, intelligence services, and police.
Cambridge:
violent action for political purposes
Al Queda was a non-state actor with state support. You bolded "nations", but that whole line says "designated foreign terrorist ... nations". The Ukrainians are not trying to instil fear, they're cutting a major logistical line with military uses.
Devils in the details, as usual.
I also bolded nations (state-sponsored), political organizations, state institutions such as armies and intelligence services.
Exactly for that reason. Ukraine is openly and clandestinely attacking* Russia, most likely with help from Western governments. The goal is to instill fear in the Russian population in order to reduce the russian population's willingness to support or accept the ongoing SMO/war against Ukraine/NATO expansion.
- I'm not judging, they're at war.
The goal is to deny Russia a supply route. If they wanted to instill fear they’d strike apartment buildings like the Russians do.
Ukraine was likely behind the assassination of Darya Dugin and they've flown drones armed with explosives over residential areas in Moscow.
Just one source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65751632
Not to forget the Nordstream pipelines (though I'm sure the US was heavily involved).
Come on man, there are no good people in war. Stop the "Russian talking points" line while simultaneously regurgitating Western talking points. It's quite tiresome.
"No good people in the war that Russia started and is perpetuating."
Ukraine's options for ending the war here are either continue fighting (in its own territory, even) or lay down and die. Are you seriously recommending it do the latter?
If you want better results, you should spend your time convincing Russia to end their war of aggression, instead of bitching about the lengths Ukraine must go to if it wants to not die.
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I’ll grant you Darya’s assassination is suspect, but like you admit, there’s no confirmation. As for the drones, that’s a ridiculous false equivalence given those drones were targeting military assets and no civilians were hurt by them, unlike Russias pattern of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure.
I’ve seen no credible evidence that anyone other than Russia was behind the Nordstream attacks, but feel free to try to convince me otherwise.
I might add my grandparents were great when they fought off the fascist Nazis and Imperial Japanese. Russia is wholly in the wrong for this war and did so only under the false assumption they’d be able to take over quickly and with acceptable repercussions.
You’re the one bringing up “Russian talking points”; the views I present are my own.
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If the goal were to instill fear in Russian citizens, they'd be attacking Russian citizens.
They are not.
They are attacking a Russian supply line to hamper their offensive efforts.
When you give bad faith actors the benefit of the doubt, you look like a bad faith actor yourself. Stop parroting Russian talking points as if there's a way for Ukraine to have their approval without capitulating.
If the goal were to instill fear in Russian citizens, they'd be attacking Russian citizens
For example, like the Kremlin is bombing Ukrainian apartment buildings and murdering civilians.
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Office buildings are not military targets, nor was the plane used to strike the Pentagon (getting ahead of that potential rebuttal). The Kerch bridge is as it’s used to transport military goods to the front line.
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None of your definitions match Ukraine, which attacks military targets during an active war started by a nation that invaded them.
Now, Russia actively bombing civilian targets to generate a climate of fear in a population to bring a particular political objective, seems to awfully match that definition.
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The purpose of felling the two towers was to cause terror and change amaricans political views.
The purpose of felling the Kerch bridge is to stop russian bringing military resources into the Ukraine.
What maybe a difficult point is something like the bombing of ww2 cities like Dresden, Coventry or Hiroshima. Many there were making munitions for Japan so was it.civilian or moltrry
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Lol, not only is it not in Russia but in Russian occupied Ukraine it's also not terrorism, it's war
Even russia would be fair from a ukrainian perspective. It's not like russia has been holding back in this regard
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Crimea is Ukraine.
Just leave Ukraine and problem solved, right?
Uhm... it's war? The war you started? A war caused by one of the biggest terrorist state? A glass house of a state.
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Terrorism is when another nation resists your genocide and the more they resist your genocide the more terrorism it is
Meanwhile, Russia does this: BBC News - Ukraine war: Russia strikes Ukraine grain after ending sea deal https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66242446
Fuck them.
mother and father of a 14-year-old girl were killed on Monday and the girl left wounded as they tried to cross the bridge to start a family holiday in Crimea,
Uh. I guess my holiday destinations are insanely boring in comparison. I call bullshit.
It’s not bullshit, Russians are still vacationing in Crimea like there isn’t a war going on. It’s pretty insane, especially given the fact that they’ve caused traffic jams multiple times that have likely held up war supplies.
Watched a video some months back of a woman in a car with a man video taping her as she cried about why they had to leave Crimea. This was when some were being evacuated because of some offensive moves by Ukraine. The whole time she is crying about why they would do this and how much she loved it there after moving and that they didn't do anything to deserve it.
They are clueless. Or just brainwashed. Maybe both.
It's the same age old story: big guy punches a small guy and when the small guy punches back, the big guy starts crying that he's been punched.
Cause and effect, you reap what you sow.
That's untrue, if they ever start doing terrorist attacks towards Russia, I definitely won't turn a blind eye - I'll actively cheer!
I'd not support Ukraine indiscriminately killing women and children, but luckily it seems like Ukraine is more interested in military targets and infrastructure.
Russia, on the other hand, seems to be directly targeting women and children. Which, to my mind, makes them a terrorist state.
These aren’t “terrorist attacks” against Russia. They’re “special military operations”.
What now? A terrorist attack inside Russia or an attack on the Crimean Bridge?
You see, comrade, terrorist attack is when Nazis attack bridge we stole, not when comrade bomb Nazi apartment building.
Just a point of clarification; the Russians built the bridge after their illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014
Yeah, it's like getting upset when you build a shack on someone else's land and they tear it down.
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