The hell are you talking about? The predominant talking point of western commentators in the early phases of the war was the complete lunacy of Russia invading a place, and then using local cellphone networks to communicate, leaving in place a massive highly connected civilian population which didn't like them.

Because Russia's invasion is clearly illegal and immoral. Every act they do in furtherance of that goal is a crime. Every bullet fired, every cell phone tower and every power transformer destroyed.

Israel is clearly defending themselves against a genocidal adversary who just killed more Jews in one day than any day since the Holocaust. They have every right to invade Gaza to eliminate that threat.

>Israel is clearly defending themselves against a genocidal adversary who just killed more Jews in one day than any day since the Holocaust

And Israel had previously killed way more Palestinian civilians than that. Why is a Jewish life worth more than a Palestinian life?

The ground invasion hasn't even begun, they have already killed 6 times more people than Hamas did. [1]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/middleeast/gaza-death-toll-re...

You're getting downvoted for telling the truth. Crazy how even here people are straight up parroting Hamas propaganda about how Israel is actually bad for defending themselves.

At best, you are straw manning the other side's arguments here. But for the most part, you are alleging comments and language that don't seem to appear in this thread.

So the thousands of children killed in Gaza are guilty?

The idea that Israel is killing "thousands of children" comes directly from Hamas, no other countries have verified that.

Considering a week ago Hamas dropped a rocket on their own hospital and then claimed "Israel killed 500 people", I don't believe a single number coming from them.

This is not just 'an idea':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_the_Israeli%E2%80%...

I will agree with you for a second. We don't trust hamas. What about a truce to help civilians and deliver aid and send UN verification team? Wouldn't that be great for people and for morals of the great Isreali people?

Oh, I forgot that US veto every attempt for a ceasefire or truce and isreal said it will not respect it anyway.

Normally ceasefires only happen when its beneficial to both sides. One side doesn't get to call a time-out in a war just because they suddenly started losing. That's not the way war works and wouldn't happen in any other conflict either.

"The West" doesn't have a single opinion. If there's one topic where opinions are sharply divided then it's this. Any attempt to pigeonhole what "The West" thinks on this topic is nonsense.

tell yourself whatever gets you to sleep at night, but the hegemonic consensus decides where the big bombs drop

Could you link to what you are referring to? I don't recall anyone claiming russia attempting to disrupt communications was immoral or a violation of norms, but perhaps i missed it.