Re:Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern ...
by jacquesm on Saturday February 26, 2022 @02:34PM
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Munitions can and do fail, rockets can and do go off territory.
Taking into account how the Russians handled MH17, as a Dutch person I may be a bit biased but I think this is wholly on them.
Russia is responsible, no matter how you want to dress it up. RCA. Or do you actually believe that reparations payments take into account which party did the damage?
Re:Residential building struck by a missile in southwestern ...
by justin66 on Saturday February 26, 2022 @06:22PM
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Anti-aircraft weapons are inherently dangerous to the cities they protect. Shells are fired upward and many follow a ballistic path back down to earth, missiles are fired and quite often miss. Successfully deployed weapons cause airplanes, and all their fuel and ordnance, to fall out of the sky onto the landscape below. All of this is understood by the militaries who rely on these weapons.
These are just the basic facts. No special expertise needed, of the sort the "I can tell what kind of missile this was by observing the smoke it makes" guy must possess. Shifting moral responsibility for collateral damage from the aggressor to the defender based on the limitations of the defender's arsenal does not seem right.
This should be remembered, those responsible in its operation should be reprimanded, and those civilians and their families should be compensated by the Ukrainian government. It should not be used as propaganda, it should be admitted as a mistake.