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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer seemed at a lost of words at the justification being used to bomb a refugee camp in Gaza.

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 9 months ago (48 children)

And? If there's a hostage situation, the answer is not to blow up the entire building, hostages and all.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Even Russians don't blow the entire building, they just gas it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nah. We watched the Russians blow up the buildings in realtime without even worrying if military personnel were housed there. IIRC that was the theater bombing one that I am thinking of.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Israel are straight-up taking plays from the Soviet handbook here. Indiscriminate murder of civilians is okay if you get one bad dude. They’ve already dehumanised Palestinians beyond belief, it’s no wonder that they view murder of innocent Palestinians as being completely different to murder of innocent Israelis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

And that's the most disturbing part of it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They blew up that whole theater in Mariupol full of sheltering women and children, early on in the war. That must have killed hundreds.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That wasn't a hostage situation that was plain ethnic cleansing. Russia has thrown pretty much the whole of the male population in the occupied territories in the meat grinder by now, btw.

What OP is referring to is the Dubrovka crisis where Chechens took tons of hostages in a theatre and Russia pumped the whole thing full of gas, probably some fast-acting opioid. Which isn't that bad of a way to diffuse a situation they just failed to inform EMTs on what they've used or at least how patients should be treated which meant a lot more respiratory failures than was necessary. Still a better outcome than storming the thing and the Chechens blowing everything up.

A russian classic, really:

С утра садимся мы в телегу;
Мы рады голову сломать
И, презирая лень и негу,
Кричим: валяй, ебёна мать!

At dawn we jump inside the wagon,
Quite happy for our necks to break.
Scorning all soft delight and languor,
We yell "Get going, for fuck's sake!"

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