Quote from: Branko on April 04, 2023, 07:52:34 AM

Quote from: TwitchySeal on April 04, 2023, 06:53:47 AM

Quote from: Branko on April 04, 2023, 06:11:47 AM

Quote from: paxmao on April 03, 2023, 10:52:16 PM

Did the IRA only hit legitimate targets during a war? Did they not, for example, set bomb a city centre with no particular strategic value or target?

The fact that a concealed bomb is used does not make it a terror attack. RF is at war with Ukraine, espionage, propaganda and production centres are legitimate targets. It would be not be acceptable to bomb a supermarket, shell a Theatre or kill civilians, steal their property and mass-grave them.

I support the peaceful (read it again) right to self determination and, in general, a military defensive response against a military attack with the objective of reaching a durable peace. More so when a democracy or something that could become a true democracy is at war with a despot.

Why are Falklands still occupied?

Why is Russia still occupied?

Because Putin still didn't purge all oligarchs that were plundering it and transferring money to the West

You might be accidentally right.

If we play along with Putin and the brainwashed Russia/MAGA crowd, where everything Russia does is a victory and everything not right with the world is Biden or transgender peoples fault, how do you explain Ukrainians still controlling land almost 6 months after the four Eastern Ukraine regions became officially part of Russia.

The front line is now in Russia.
There are more Ukrainian soldiers occupying Russia than the other way around.
Russia went from a special military operation that was supposed to only last a few months (according to be.open) to having to mobilize hundreds of thousands of civilians and bring in a nazi private military company to help defend mother russia...

And this probably is part of the reason:

Quote from: Branko on April 04, 2023, 07:52:34 AM

Because Putin still didn't purge all oligarchs that were plundering it and transferring money to the West

A big chunk of the military budget obviously went somewhere besides the military....