A top Russian military commander was killed by a car bomb near Moscow. The attack happened just hours before US envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On Friday, Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik was killed by a car bomb in Balashikha, a city near Moscow. He served as deputy chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
According to TASS, Russian officials say Moskalik was the only person killed by the blast. Authorities believe the bomb was an IED containing submunitions and had the power of more than 300 grams of TNT.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova called the bombing a “terrorist attack.” “The main question is how to stop the war in the center of Europe, the world. We see so many victims every day,” she said. “Even today, a Russian [general] was killed in a terrorist attack in Moscow.”
Ukraine has conducted similar bombing in Russia during the war.
The attack came just hours before Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met with Putin in Russia. Friday’s talks are the fourth round of negotiations between Witkoff and the Russian President.
Trump has repeatedly stated that he wants to bring the war in Ukraine to an end. In recent days, he has called on Kiev to recognize Moscow’s control over Crimea. Ukrainian President Zelensky firmly rejected this proposal.
On Wednesday, Trump slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for rejecting the idea of Ukraine. “This statement is very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices of President Barack Hussein Obama, and is not even a point of discussion,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“[Zelensky] can have Peace, or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country,” he added. “We are very close to a Deal, but the man with ‘no cards to play’ should now, finally, GET IT DONE.”
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com and news editor of the Libertarian Institute. He hosts The Kyle Anzalone Show and is co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Connor Freeman.
You’l be sorrrrry.
Zakharova calling it a terrorist attack is silly. Killing a general, and only a general, involved with the war at wartime is just about as clean as it gets in modern war!
The Americans would also call it "TERRORISM!!!" if somebody – say the Houthis – assassinated an American general with a car bomb in the middle of Washington DC.
The US government would call it Terrorism if the Houthis assassinated an Israel general in the middle of Gaza.
The US government would call it "terrorism" if an Israeli soldier was shot by a Hamas fighter in Gaza.
Israel and the US ensure there can never be a Palestinian state, so there can be no Palestinian state sponsored violence, so their fighters are by definition illegal combatants ie terrorists. Thus the logic while circular is complete.
Sure. And it would be just as silly and stupid.
I suppose it could be considered terrorism due to the method and location, but soldiers are legitimate targets in war, as we know. Terror is a means to frighten the populace into submission and I don't think that was the goal here.
"The main question is how to stop the war in the center of Europe" A war Russia started.
I used to believe that. However, even skipping the provocations of Nato expansion and military fortification of Ukraine and noises made about nukes, the war really started in 2014 between the ethnic Russians of Donbas and the Ukraine government. Russia chose to enter the war in ‘22.
Russia started conducting a proxy war, using the Donbas separatists, in 2014. When that proxy war failed, it upped the ante.
You're for real? Donbas erupted as a separatist civil war in response to the 2014 coup in Kiev. It absolutely was not a proxy war.
And it wasn't the first American coup in Kiev either. After the 2005 "orange revolution" it took Ukraine years to return to some kind of normalcy and balance of power. At that time everybody intelligent knew that another color revolution would immediately push Donbas to declare independence. So what did Washington do? They mounted the 2014 coup.
Yes, Donbas erupted as a separatist war (not a civil war — once they seceded, they were no longer part of Ukraine) in response to the 2014 coup.
And the Russian regime then used the separatists forces as proxies for eight years, only committing to invasion of Ukraine proper by regular troops once the proxy war was clearly lost.
So when the South seceded from the United States, that was a separatist war, NOT a civil war? Why do they call it "The American Civil War" then?
Yes, it was a separatist war of secession.
It’s called the American Civil War by the victorious anti-secession regime. In the South it’s often called other things.
It is called a "Civil War" because the citizens who fought the war were from the same country when the war started. And when the war end, the citizens who fought the war were back in the same country. If the results were different, than another name might be better. Similar to the Spanish Civil war.
The Spanish Civil War was a war for control of a single country.
In a war of secession, the war is over whether a former part of a country will be allowed to go its separate way or brought back under the old country’s control by force.
When the thirteen colonies fought for their independence from Britain it ended up being called a revolution. God knows why. It certainly wasn't the overthrow of a central government as in the French and Russian revolutions. It isn't called a civil war because, unlike the English Civil War, the combatant parties weren't struggling for control of the government in London. It isn't called a war of secession (which would be correct) in the US because that would put a different light on the war between the Confederate States and the government in Washington DC. How events are titled often serves a political agenda.
Essentially, it was a land grab from the British Crown. That is my take on things.
In England the American revolution is called American War of Independence. However the term revolution is acceptable because a revolution refers to the a forcible overthrow of a government or social order. That is exactly what happen in the colonies as the existing government by the King was replaced and a new social order started.
The "separatists" have encircled the Ukraine Armed Forces in Debaltsevo and Kiev asked for a "truce". The Russians advised the "separatists" to stop and at the West's request Minsk 1 was agreed upon. I suppose you know what has happen after…
" used the separatists forces as proxies for eight years" You're stating that people who had a coup against the president they elected and were targeted by armed Nazi regalia-wearing irregulars backed by national laws against their language and religion would have no agency to be in revolt on their own? It appears evident that Russian speaking Orthodox Ukrainians are the ones who were holding the line against coup-installed proxies of the US and EU.
Thomas gets his info from dubious sources ,to say the least….
I don't agree with that. You may disagree with his opinion, I sometimes do, but don't question his sources.
The Russian SMO was in part a RTP mission to protect the Russian speaking Ukraine citizen in the Donbas who had been bombed for 8 years.
During those years, 14,000 Ukraine citizens were killed by Kiev NAZIS.
Funny how the "Responsibility to Protect" didn't kick in until the conflict had died down to single-digit civilian deaths per year and peace was breaking out.
Interesting to justify starting a war because citizens of another country speak your language.
Those Russian speaking Ukrainians were killed by the thousands.
You left that part out.
There was no "peace" breaking out.
Russia took the bait. The war was inevitable. Doing a little whataboutism, our country would have reacted the same way, if not a bit more brutally, under similar circumstances.
The Russians absolutely had to take the bait and do it immediately. No other option. That's the beauty of trap America set for them.
It wasn't just about the NATO expansion. The Ukronazis were getting ready to do the "Croatian solution" in Donbas. Think about it: millions of ethnic Russians expelled from their ancestral homes and made to flee to Russia, tens — perhaps hundreds — of thousands killed by solders wearing Nazi insignia (Azov brigade and others)… Putin would have been lynched for allowing such a thing to happen. Thus the Russian invasion.
This is not my conspiracy theory. We now know for a fact that France and Germany negotiated the Minsk agreement in bad faith with the explicit intention to buy Ukraine time to build a military with which to retake Donbas.
Putin hired a private neo-Nazi paramilitary company to exterminate Ukrainians.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e89b667de5076501d572ed51dc62be3f5e99966b98deb1ecf9091ec514c839f8.jpg
The rise and fall of the Wagner Group https://www.diis.dk/en/research/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-wagner-group
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The Wagner Group includes a contingent known as Rusich, which are described as a far-right extremist or neo-Nazi unit, and their logo features a Slavic swastika. They left Nazi graffiti all over the battlefield in Ukraine and Syria.
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Forum participant ‘Contrarian_Duck’ falsifies the facts in the Donbas. The Russian population of the Donbas provoked a civil war with a tent camp against the Euromaidan protests from 2013 to 2014, when a pro-Russian president ruled Ukraine. An event on May 2, 2014, leads to riots on the occasion of a soccer match Kharkiv versus Odessa, when armed anti-Maidan, pro-Russian activists gather against the “March of Unity of Ukraine” of the two soccer clubs to the stadium in Odessa. Prior to this, Russia occupies Crimea in February, March 2014 and the Donbas war starts in April 2014.
"The Russian population of the Donbas provoked a civil war with a tent camp against the Euromaidan protests from 2013 to 2014"
Erecting a tent camp doesn't qualify as "starting a civil war.
You left out this part:
In 2014, 42 Ukrainian trade unionists were burned to death when Odessa’s House of Trade Unions was set alight by fascists.
They had taken refuge from a crowd of Ukrainian nationalists, opposing their protest against that February’s Maidan coup.
Your historical knowledge of the deadly events in Ukraine shows shortcomings, because I am writing precisely about your described the event on May 2, 2014, of the burning trade union building in Odessa, where the pro-Russian, armed demonstrators fled from the soccer club supporters. Are you calling all soccer club supporters fascists? Riots at football matches happen quite often in Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes
https://ukraine.un.org/en/126054-7-years-no-answers-what-lacking-investigations-events-odesa-2-may-2014
https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/international-advisory-panel/-/asset_publisher/EPeqGGDr0yBr/content/iap-report-on-odessa-events
https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/# {%22itemid%22:[%22001-242505%22]} Please scroll down to the date 13.03.25, CASE OF VYACHESLAVOVA AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE "Mass disorder in Odesa in May 2014 and a fire in the Trade Union Building resulting in loss of life and injuries"
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/03/13/7502685/ Tragedy in Odesa on 2 May 2014: ECHR finds Ukraine guilty and orders compensation
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/the-odessa-trade-union-massacre-ten-years-later/
https://cepa.org/article/russias-lie-machine-fans-flames-of-odessa-massacre/
https://genevasolutions.news/ukraine-stories/anniversary-of-deadly-2014-odesa-clashes-a-city-where-friends-turned-into-strangers
LOL. You failed to mention the Odessa murders and now you claim to be an expert.
To Hell with you and all other apologists for Nazis.
Many of those who attacked and burned the building wore swastikas and other fascist insignias, according to observers. Eyewitnesses said that the fascists were armed with bats, shields, and metal chains and that the people inside the union hall had run there for protection from them. After the attack by the rightists, streets around the trade union headquarters were reportedly stained with the blood of those who had jumped from windows to escape the flames.
Women and children were reported to be among those burned alive after initial rounds of shots and Molotov cocktails were thrown into the building by the right-wingers.
Those who burned the union headquarters had already set another pro-Russian encampment in Odessa afire. That encampment consisted of rows of tents in Odessa’s Kulikova Field Square.
Police said that many of the victims at the House of Trade Unions had choked to death before burning up. The majority of the victims were found lying dead on the floors but some had jumped from windows, according to police.
As the union hall was engulfed in flames, photos posted on Twitter showed people hanging out of windows and sitting on windowsills, where they appeared to be preparing to jump.
You repeatedly slander me propagandistically, aggressively, deliberately with abstruse, malicious thoughts contrary to the facts I have described. As an anti-fascist etc., I in no way justify the riots on both sides at the time. If I don't post internet links, I will be slandered.
I don't take kindly to apologetics for the mass murdering Neo-Nazis.
You claim the victims provoked the massacre. WTF?
You use confused, absurd linguistic vocabulary to deceive other readers for propaganda purposes, typical fascist manners indeed.
LOL. Yet I see you don’t deny that you claimed the victims of the Odessa fire provoked the massacre. You’re very dishonest and your comment is propaganda
You’re the one defending the Uke fascists, sport.
I do not defend fascists, but the principles of publicly international law and human rights, in contrast to your incitement of the people, criminal pimping, your glorification and approval of violence.
Which violence did I glorify or approve, liar?
Did you support the Maidan violence against a duly elected head of state?
Do you support the violence of the pro-Russian armed, counter-revolutionary demonstrators (anti-Euromaidan), who set up a tent camp in Mariinsky Park in front of the Verkhovna Rada building, against the pro-European, peaceful demonstrators during the Euromaidan? Obviously, you are the liar or are constructing abstruse, absurd beliefs about the historical events of the Euromaidan.
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93252 The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine, an open access book
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/explainers/understanding-ukraines-euromaidan-protests
https://uacrisis.org/en/74997-sixth-anniversary-maidan
https://uacrisis.org/en/?s=maidan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Maidan
https://zeitschrift-osteuropa.de/hefte/international/eurozine-en/the-making-and-unmaking-of-revolutions/ "What 1917 means for Ukraine, in light of the Maidan"
IOW, you won’t answer the question.
“the pro-European, peaceful demonstrators during the Euromaidan”
Your a liar! The Maidan protesst were ver violent and the violence was spearheaded by Neo-Nazis.
So cry some more about how I’m maligning you. you’re lying filth.
You’re defending Nazis.
Revealed by Merkel.
The war was inevitable. No, it was not. Had Russia had a different leader, instead of a leader who still dreams of the glory of the USSR, this war would not have happen.
And you are out of your god damned mind. Only one ignoring the history leading up to Russi's invasion would say such a ridiculous thing. And Putin would be a moderate republican in the US political system.
The propagandist ‘Caliman’ expresses a dangerous, deceptive half-knowledge and ignorance of the military, political facts. Norway, a member of NATO since 1949, shares a border with Russia. In Turkey, a member of NATO since 1952, U.S. nuclear weapons and its military aircraft are stored at the Incirlik airbase. NATO members Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (Kaliningrad Oblast) also border Russia. Russia is therefore not threatened by any new geomilitary aggression by NATO.
https://www.nato.int/cps/su/natohq/official_texts_25468.htm "Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation signed in Paris, France, 1997"
Real classy. /s Why not reply directly to the guy you're insulting?
How many agents participate in the forum? Discussing with these agents in the forum makes less sense.
That's a load of bullshit.
What's the difference between "a terrorist" and "freedom fighter"? It depends whose ox is being gored.
“Terrorist” and “freedom fighter” aren’t antonyms. It is entirely possible to be both. Terrorism is a tactic, freedom is a goal.
The Economist stated in the 1990s: "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter".
The Economist also called the next big problem is the Global South illegally emigrating north!
That is true of course, but those two descriptive terms in our language are meant to conjure up two very different emotions when they are used.
Rogue state Ukraine is a terrorist state. America needs to tag the Zelensky government as a terrorist organization which is unelected.
There can be no peace negotiations or even cease fire when Ukraine is assassinating Russian citizens!
Aren't generals fair game in war?
but risk of collateral damage to civilians is quite high in an attack like this. according to the pic the car seems somewhat distant from structures & other vehicles. but would vaporize a pedestrian if nearby. seems just as likely the general had domestic enemies. maybe someone didnt like losing a relative fighting in this general’s army in putin’s stupid war. maybe it’s a clean job idk.
You’re kidding! I mean, both sides here use drones and rocket bombs. Just yesterday several people were killed in Kiev from a Russian bomb.
Or surface-to-air missiles falling back to earth. With western help Ukrainians have become masters at propaganda, I don't believe a word that comes from Kiev.
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LOL, OK. Now do Zelenskyy, Trump, Biden, Boris Johnson, Blinken, Nuland, and Merkel, just to name a few. Look and you'll see a lot of war criminals running around.
There would have been no war had not the Biden administration ignored Russia December, 2021.
The war would have ended February, 2022 had not Boris been dispatched to tell Zelensky to not make peace with Russia, to fight on to the last Ukraine solder.
And now, the peacemaker, Trump, says he wants to make peace while continuing the Biden weapons/money pipeline.
Let us also not forget that Trump withdrew from the INF treaty, and Open Skies, and, sanctioned Russia.
And yet imbecile Democrats still called him Putin's bitch.
In 1994 the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, UK, and the US signed a memorandum to provide Ukraine with security assurances in connection with its accession to the NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state.
To solidify security commitments to Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom signed the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances on December 5, 1994. A political agreement in accordance with the principles of the Helsinki Accords, the memorandum included security assurances against the threat or use of force against Ukraine’s territory or political independence.
The countries promised to respect the sovereignty and existing borders of Ukraine.
Parallel memorandums were signed for Belarus and Kazakhstan as well. In response, Ukraine officially acceded to the NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state on December 5, 1994. That move met the final condition for ratification of START, and on the same day, the five START states-parties exchanged instruments of ratification, bringing the treaty into force.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty – United States https://www.state.gov/nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 1968 https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/npt
Let us forget that Putin is a murderous dictator who violates international law. Right?
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You'd think with all those American billion$ that someone in Ukraine could afford a proper copy of Photoshop.
Trump threatens Putin with sanctions after one-on-one Vatican chat with Zelenskyy. https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/update-6-trump-and-zelenskiy-meet-one-on-one-in-vatican-basilica-to-seek-ukraine-peace/
I think Trump's bromance with Putin is officially over.
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That is a good start!
What? You expect Ukraine to hold back just because they might kill a Russian civilian? You really don't understand the nature of warfare.
I was just going by what seems acceptable in these sick times. The risk factor has seemed to vanish. Now, if you keep it in reason, it's acceptable. How sick is that?
A slippery slope with Zelensky's life in play!
No doubt about that. I didn't say it was wise.
Yes, but the Russians never targeted him, or his ministers, or his generals, or his command and communication centers in Kiev.
I don't understand why not, but they never did.
For reference, look at the targets the Americans bombed in Belgrade in 1999. The Russians never did anything like that.
Never? They sent a hit squad in the first days of the war to Kiev to try to get Zelensky. Your first sentence is pure nonsense.
And your last sentence is even dumper. Look at what Russia did in Aleppo.
Oh Tim, you're such an erudite thinker, a real scholar, it's hard to argue with you. But I'll try anyway. Who do you suppose it was that infested Aleppo with heavily armed jihadists, the Russians?
A claim made by the people who boasted about the Ghost of Kiev. Very dubious claims from a very dubious source. In short: lies and propaganda from Kiev.
Evidence, please.
Here is one article, there are others. Rana, Manveen (28 February 2022). "Volodymyr Zelensky: Russian mercenaries ordered to kill Ukraine's president". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Archived from the original on 28 February 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
How do you know who/what the Russians have and haven’t targeted?
Because if the Russians had bombed the presidential palace in Kiev or a ministry or anything such, we would know it – the Ukrainians would have been caterwauling to high heaven and so would Western media.
For reference of Russia's war crimes:
More Than 700,000 Ukrainian Children Taken To Russia Since Full-Scale War Started, Official Says. https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-children-taken-ukraine/32527298.html
Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children is an attempt to steal the country's future and has left the youngsters with deep psychological scars. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-children-abducted-by-russia-left-with-psychological-scars-campaigners-2024-06-15/
Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu and Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov. https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-sergei-kuzhugetovich-shoigu-and
ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova. https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/23/zelensky-pushes-back-on-mineral-deal-says-ukraine-not-in-debt-to-the-us/#comment-6658098300
Russian war crimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_war_crimes
No mention of "700000" children abducted in your Wikipedia source….
International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Russian leaders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court_arrest_warrants_for_Russian_leaders
Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
Obviously because Russia wants to fight according to norms of engagement, not create martyrs and have partners with whom to create normalized post-war relations. They've been planning around that since the beginning and think in terms of decades and generations, not Pentagon-style "What can we blow up in the next 48 hours?'
Only if they are Russian. And if they are Iranian they are fair game even if there is no war. But not US generals. And don't even think about Israeli generals. Or soldiers. Or settlers.
Soleimani was on a diplomatic mission in Iraq when he was murdered.
Which makes his murder all the more egregious.
That was his mission that day, but his history was not so good.
Right, because the US says so. They claim he was responsible for American deaths when those responsible for any American deaths reside in Washington. Don't do illegal invasions and your soldiers won't get killed.
In the battlefield perhaps… Not at their residents…!
Since when?
Since the middle of the 19th century.
https://lieber.westpoint.edu/assassination-law-of-war/
You accidentally posted a useful question although intended as rhetorical.
In wartime, the rules regarding assassination are complex and subject to interpretation. According to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which is binding on 174 states including Russia, Israel, and the United States, the right to life is protected by law, and no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of their life.
The term "assassination" is not defined under international law, but it is generally understood as murder by sudden or secret attack, often for political reasons. Legal scholars rely on standard dictionary definitions and treaties to clarify that killing for political reasons by sudden or secret attack is unlawful.
In the context of armed conflict, the laws of war prohibit treacherous killing, which involves attacking someone who has no expectation of being in danger of death. For example, a soldier who falsely raises a white flag of surrender to lure an enemy in close enough to kill them would be guilty of killing treacherously.
The Hague Convention IV of 1907 and its subsequent revisions prohibit killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army. This prohibition has been validated by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and other authoritative bodies.
However, the use of lethal force consistent with the laws of war against an individual who is a legitimate military target would be lawful and would not violate the assassination ban. This includes situations where the individual poses an imminent threat to the United States or is engaged in hostilities.
Despite these rules, the term "targeted killing" has been used to describe the deliberate assassination of known terrorists outside a judicial procedure or battlefield, which has been a subject of contention. Some argue that targeted killings are legitimate within the context of self-defense, while others maintain that they are mostly illegal.
Be nice if anybody abided by it. I should have said fair game by today's standards.
I wrote a longer post on this elsewhere on the thread, but specifically, formally not when not on a battlefield, no, not even according to official American rules of engagement.
Fine. I stand corrected. Now let me know when it's abided by. Especially by America.
All states are terrorist states.
C'mon, Russians have been exemplary in this war, they never unleashed shock and awe on the Ukrainian population, they never targeted, hunted down, and hanged Zelensky like the Americans did with Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, they never carpet-bombed cities, etc.
You want to talk about terrorist states? There's two that top the list and are far above any competition – America and Israel. Nobody else is in the same league.
These distinctions are too subtle for some.
"C'mon, Russians have been exemplary in this war" Are you insane or just using too much drugs today.
I take your caterwauling as a sure sign that I’m right. It’s satisfying. 😁
Just compare civilian casualties between this war and Gaza or Iraq.
How does that prove that "Russians have been exemplary in this war" ?
All states are still terrorist states. It's just a matter of degree.
Exemplary and war shouldn't be used in the same sentence. I get what you're saying though. Comparatively speaking wise, the US has no right to call out anyone for brutality.
Point taken.
ICC issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-pre-trial-chamber-i-rejects-state-israels-challenges
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The hardliners in the Kremlin wanted "shock and awe" on Kiev.
Or potential ones.
Was it terror to firebomb Dresden, Tokyo, drop two nukes on Japan?
Yes, it was.
Dresden: housing 110 factories and 50,000 workers supporting the German war effort.
Tokyo. 50% of the industrial capacity of Tokyo was spread among residential and commercial neighborhoods.
Hiroshima. 40,000 Japanese military personnel were stationed in the city.
Nagasaki . 9,000 troops were in the city and most importantly the Mitsubishi arms factories were located there.
Those cities were attacked for their military value. Not just to generate terror.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were attacked for the purpose of creating terror and cowing the Soviet Union. The Japanese regime started offering to surrender in March of 1945, its only condition being that the Emperor not be dethroned.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were attacked for the purpose of creating terror and cowing the Soviet Union. The Japanese regime started offering to surrender in March of 1945, its only condition being that the Emperor not be dethroned.
"Ukraine is assassinating Russian citizens" Since when is killing an enemy general against the laws of war?
Since you asked twice I'll answer twice: since the middle of the 19th century. Now, if the general is riding a horse at you on a battlefield waving his sword, then, yes, you can shoot him. You're not allowed to plant a car bomb in a residential neighborhood.
https://lieber.westpoint.edu/assassination-law-of-war/
You and your immorality were exposed here, monster.
MI6 likely involved – providing the intel
Much as I hate to admit it, those Ukronazis are plucky and imaginative fighters. But I don't believe for an instant that they are pulling this kind of actions again and again on Russian soil without extensive support from Western intelligence agencies. And in this case – in the middle of Putin-Witkoff talks – it's clearly intended at sabotaging Trump's peace initiative (for whatever that peace initiative is worth).
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and
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Is a stupid meme reposted again and again the best argument you can come up with?
The Trump administration has privately indicated its willingness to provide support to a proposed European-led peacekeeping force in Ukraine, the Telegraph reported on April 25, citing undisclosed sources.
While U.S. President Donald Trump has refused to commit American troops, U.S. officials have reportedly opened the door to providing intelligence-sharing and logistical aid to the so-called "coalition of the willing."
The coalition, led by U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, aims to establish a multinational force to help monitor a potential ceasefire deal in Ukraine and boost Kyiv's defense capabilities.
https://kyivindependent.com/us-signals-support-for-ukraine-peacekeeping-coalition-telegraph-reports/
America needs to declare Ukraine a terrorist state and use our drones on Zelensky!
What a dumb idea.
Evil Ukraine doing everything it can to sabotage any hope of peace negotiations.
Zelensky is trying to stay alive. An armored carrier with a casket inside is waiting for him.
Somehow despite losing the war Ukraine will get everything they want. Europe is sure of it. Or, they're sure every Ukrainian dying is perfectly fine.
So a perfectly legitimate military target – a Russian general is taken out and this site* and people here cry terrorism!?
While Russia raining missiles and drones down on numerous Ukrainian cities killing mostly civilians – and there are no complaints!
This looke increasingly like a site for spreading Russian propaganda – and yes that is what you are doing when quoting the Russian line without challenging it in the least, as this article does.
And just in case you think it is being fair by quoting Trump – notice that Trump is Putin II, i.e. yet a world leader with no respect for international law – and desires to redraw borders if necessary by force.
It is the manner in which he was taken out.
What is wrong with the way he was taken out? If his car was hit in drone strike would that have been OK? How about a sniper round?
Everything.
It's the usual US/Israel lawlessness, which of course, being a Zionist monster, you support.
This form of targeted assassination away from any battlefield has been considered contrary to the norms of war since the 19th century.
During World War II, US command discussed assassinating Japanese admiralty which they thought would be key to disrupting Japan's tactical capability (no one even believes any such thing with this Russian general.) Even in the 1940s, even believing the Japanese to be subhuman, within the context of the Tokyo firebombing & two atom bomb drops, it was thought that assassination of high command was ethically unsound and likely to lead to reprisals.
https://lieber.westpoint.edu/assassination-law-of-war/
The Antiwar medium is only directed against foreign policy wars of the USA or the U.S. interfering support of those warring fronts, and not pacifistically against all wars in general. The forum is dominated by pro-Russian and pro-Palestinian war policies.
https://www.antiwar.com/who.php
Being that Zelenskyy still has a heartbeat I think Russia is displaying an incredible amount of constraint.
https://www.rt.com/shows/documentary/591044-weaponry-makes-its-way-out-of-ukraine/
I'm very late to the thread, not many will see this. This form of targeted assassination away from any battlefield has been considered contrary to the norms of war since the 19th century. I'm really surprised none of the usual commenters on the site have noted this. Yes, from a moral perspective killing is killing, but from a rules of war perspective this is a major provocation and widely considered a filthy tactic. The fact that it happened in a major city very far from combat also makes it terrorism.
During World War II, US command discussed assassinating Japanese admiralty which they thought would be key to disrupting Japan's tactical capability (no one even believes any such thing with this Russian general.) Even in the 1940s, even believing the Japanese to be subhuman, within the context of the Tokyo firebombing & two atom bomb drops, it was thought that assassination of high command was ethically unsound and likely to lead to reprisals.
The link I'm attaching on the topic is from West Point. Any assassinations American uniformed military have engaged in are contrary to their own teachings. Obviously American spook agencies have had no such qualms, having come up through the years with a variety of exotic ideas for murdering Castro alone.
https://lieber.westpoint.edu/assassination-law-of-war/
As far as the side issue of Russia's behavior in the war, I also think it's been very responsible and proportional. The US would have taken out civilian infrastructure in Kiev and Lvov a long time ago, you'd have had babies dying of cholera and millions more refugees than there have been (most of those have been from the Ukrainian government attacking what it insists upon remaining its own people for being the wrong stripe of Christian and speaking the wrong Slavic language.)
Ukrainian nightclubs and amusement parks have been open as of several weeks ago when I checked a local newspaper just to see what life is like for people not on the frontlines. One supposes there aren't any men 16-55 at them, but that's what's happening as opposed to what happens in Libya, Syria, Iraq etc when we pull the plug on their entire societies.
Russia wants/needs a functional state on its borders with rational partners who don't have generations wanting revenge, so that there's not a repeat of multiple generations of Waffen SS relatives claiming grandpa Did Nothing Wrong. The model has been Georgia, which has made moves away from the corrupt/puppet government which the official EU report blames for initiating that war, which has made attempts at charging Saakashvili (who despite not being Ukrainian ended up in a post-coup Ukraine government post, how obvious can things get!) with crimes, and which currently has decent enough relations with Russia.
Even in the 1940s, even believing the Japanese to be subhuman, within the context of the Tokyo firebombing & two atom bomb drops, it was thought that assassination of high command was ethically unsound and likely to lead to reprisals.
Fast forward to Iraq 2 and the US bombing a restaurant to try to assassinate Saddam. Trump assassinating the Iranian general. It seems like the norm now.
It's the US & Israel's MO.
Thanks for this post!
Russia is violating its constitution according to Article 15 and publicly international law by means of its internationally outlawed war of aggression as a war crime. Consequently, the previous two comments by Chris_Randolph and Audioplantman are effectively showing solidarity with Russia and support for a war crime.
https://mid.ru/upload/medialibrary/fa3/xwhwumdwunawy9iprvhcxdqds1lzxqdx/CONSTITUTION-Eng.pdf Article 15 of the Russian Constitution: "4. Universally recognized principles and norms of international law as well as international agreements of the Russian Federation should be an integral part of its legal system. If an international agreement of the Russian Federation establishes rules, which differ from those stipulated by law, then the rules of the international agreement shall be applied."
Uniformed Ukrainians with guns crossed into Russia first to escape fighting, as reported by the BBC and other outlets, along with over a million refugees pouring across the border into Russia. Ukraine crossed that border first.
When? Please prove your statements with internet links, because I doubt the truth of your comments.
https://unric.org/en/ukraine-over-6-million-refugees-spread-across-europe/ "Nearly 1.3 million Ukrainian refugees were in Russia as of December 31, 2023, where the UNHCR has expressed concerns regarding their legal status, rights, and access to services within the country."
https://www.unrefugees.org/emergencies/ukraine/
https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/great-exodus-ukraines-refugees-flee-russia
https://reliefweb.int/report/poland/ukraine-overview-situation-refugees-ukraine-six-host-countries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainians_in_Russia
https://www.geopolitica.info/the-status-of-ukrainian-refugees-russia/
https://tass.com/ukrainian-refugees-in-russia
https://www.intellinews.com/more-than-5-5mn-ukrainian-refugees-have-fled-to-russia-from-ukraine-survey-finds-half-of-refugees-with-no-intention-of-going-home-274307/
Zelensky is a dead man grasping at straws to save his ill-gotten windfall in $Billions od American dollars.