The Russian authorities said on Saturday that a Ukrainian attack on the city of Belgorod had killed at least 18 people and injured more than 110 others, in the deadliest strike against a Russian city since the beginning of the war nearly two years ago.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement that Ukraine had hit Belgorod — a regional center of around 330,000 residents about 25 miles north of the Ukrainian border — with two missiles and several rockets, adding that the strike was “indiscriminate” and would “not go unpunished.”
The ministry said that most of the rockets had been shot down, but that some debris had fallen on the city. The Ukrainian government has not officially commented on the Belgorod attack, and Russian claims could not be immediately verified.
This is the exact same rationale that lead to wanton, willing, and repeated targeting of cities and civilians in WW1 & WW2 by both side’s air power. Nightly firebomb raids that burned whole cities and melted people alive. And it didn’t work either time, until the US deliberately nuked civilians, and promised to keep up the massacres. Victory, at what cost?
Dresden. Tokyo. Nagasaki. Hiroshima.
That’s the end game of that logic - “bro we just need to be more brutal and inhumane, and then the 5th column will rise up and win the war for us” How many murdered civilians are worth peace?