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Teen bombers in Ukraine: recruited, used, and eliminated by Russian special services (www.kyivpost.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Summary

Russian special services recruited two Ukrainian teenagers, aged 15 and 17, to carry out suicide bomb attacks in Ivano-Frankivsk, promising $1,700.

The teens unknowingly transported homemade explosives disguised as thermoses, which Russian handlers detonated remotely, killing one and seriously injuring the other. The blast also injured two passersby.

A second explosion occurred at the teens’ rented apartment.

Ukrainian authorities charged the surviving teen with terrorism-related crimes and warned of a new Russian tactic of exploiting and eliminating operatives to cover tracks.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It brings fear, it’s terrorism plain and simple. The goal is to demoralize the enemy population in general, not to gain any tactical advantage.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The entire human species needs to go extinct. We are anathema; a Net-negative for the planet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I believe that either all, or most, world-dominating-species go through this stage, after the industrial-revolutions stage..

Multiply the effect of our action on our underlying-planet by 10,000-fold, without having us go through species-puberty, without forcing us into maturity,

& the result is inevitable.

Whether some subset of humankind can earn growing-up enough, & surviving, isn't to be decided by our current-established-ignorance/irresponsibility..

Giving-up on future-generations, & just knifing them all in the back, .. may be emotionally valid, at the moment, among the privileged West, as it torches its own viability..

but it's still outright betrayal of future-generations..

& anybody who goes through my comments will see that much of the time I'm guilty of giving-up on humankind..

but while our normal, our default, our current establishment is net-negative, at planetary-scale, that doesn't prove that this world's humankind inherently is net-negative, that there's no subset worthy of living on after we-the-majority-go.

MOST of our kind need to go extinct, not necessarily the entire species, see?

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