Posted on 11/27/2022 9:24:10 AM PST by McGruff
Russia's attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure amount to genocide, a top Ukrainian official says.
Strikes on key facilities targeted "the full Ukrainian nation" and were an effort to force Kyiv to surrender, the prosecutor-general told the BBC.
The term genocide refers to an effort to wipe out a group of people. Russia denies having any such aim.
Millions of people across Ukraine are facing power cuts in freezing weather, following sustained Russian attacks.
Efforts are ongoing to reconnect homes cut off from electricity. Officials say Kherson has now been fully resupplied, following the city's recapture by Ukrainian troops earlier this month.
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So US attacks on Iraqi energy infrastructure amounted to racism. Except Bush said it wasn’t about Islam as he blew their power structure to smithereens.
They were saying “terrorism” the other day but if “genocide” fits use it ha ha...
I have William Tecumseh Sherman available on line 1 to explain why in war this is just fine.
One Weird Trick in war...
It was Hiram Ulysses Grant who ordered the indiscriminate shelling of the civilian population in Vicksburg.
Trump called it genocide.
“Genocide involves an “the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”, according to a definition provided by the UN Genocide Convention.”
Kind of like what Ukraine has been doing to the ethic Russian parts of Ukraine for the past eight years.
It’s Ukraine losing.
Putin has faced domestic criticism for waiting so long. As time goes by it’s going become obvious they didn’t want to do any of this. Starting this was not their idea and they’re being forced to finish it.
And they will.
Never mind that taking down the electric grid is one of the first things we've done in countries like Iraq and Serbia.
Dresden is calling. They want reparations for the fire bombing and destruction of their city and for the restoration of their historic cathedral.
Nobody in Dresden picked up the phone.
Robert Rogers, as in Rogers’ Rangers? I found out just now that he ended up a Tory and died in Britain.
In war, you hit the enemy where it hurts the most. It’s what we did in Atlanta, Dresden, and Hiroshima, etc. When a country refuses to commit to winning, like we did in Vietnam, you get the result we got in Vietnam: 55,000 dead and humiliation.
Welcome to war stooge. It appears someone doesn’t want you in the NWO.
How’s Libya doing since 2011?
We didn’t try to do any of that in WW1 or WW2, did we?
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