• Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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    13 hours ago

    The implication here is: “You people are detached, soft, and incapable of understanding real war.”

    No the implication is that westerners love killing civilians so much that they forget that wars are fought between militaries. I’ll be more clear about this next time.

    That’s not an argument. That’s a moral superiority pose.

    You want an argument? It’s trivial to give one. All western countries have been involved in warmongering in west asia since before I was born. There is full justification for any group in west asia to launch attacks on western military assets.

    Even under international law (which western militaries refuse to follow), retaliating against military attacks is fully allowed. America and its zionist occupation of Palestine attacked Iran (military targets and civilians), and even inside its borders and capital city*. The Iranian state has every right to bomb any American military target, even if it were inside US border.

    *this isn’t the first time either. The Americans did this last year, and even in trump’s 1rst term

    minimizing the reality that modern warfare absolutely does kill civilians

    Sure, there are civilians casualties from war. So should America be allowed to bomb and genocide whoever they want with no one fighting back?

    Civilian harm is a central moral and legal issue in contemporary conflict. That’s not Western fragility. That’s international humanitarian law.

    Lmao western militaries do not give a single fuck about civilians or collateral damage or international law. You really want to present the butchers of gaza as some sort of hippies in 2026?

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      7 hours ago

      So just to be clear, are civilians legitimate targets as long as they live in the “wrong” country?

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        6 hours ago

        Reading comprehension curse strikes again

        I have never once advocated for the deliberate targeting of civilians and have specified again and again that warfighting should be between militaries.