Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Context is everything as the AOAV report noted "explaining the high numbers of child deaths requires context".

Also to note casualties is not = deaths.

40% of casualties (death and injury) in Afghanistan from NATO airstrikes where children in a 5 year period, and the important point, 43% of those children casualties were by non NATO air strikes.

Your definition of hypocrisy is actually a definition of whataboutery: referencing one crime to excuse another.

Hypocrisy is something different. It's claiming to have high standards when your actions show the opposite. So Russia says America is a hypocrite for criticising them over Ukraine because America invaded Iraq. This accusation of hypocrisy is itself an example of whataboutery i.e. "you did that then, so don't dare criticise us for doing this now".

Everyone who disagrees with anything I think is a Putinbot 😝

Is energy infrastructure not a valid military target? It's been done before, and is a good way to disrupt communications and logistics, moralities aside.

Only if that energy infrastructure "by their nature, location, purpose or use make an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage".

So in this circumstance I would say no.

Have you not seen the video of the ukrainians fighting each other because one thought the other was russian? very funny

(From The Guardian)

12.04 BST

Lavrov: Russia would consider Putin-Biden meeting at G20

Moscow would not turn down a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden at the G20 meeting next month, Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Looking for a deal ?

In relation to their stated war goals Russias performance in this war since March has been absolutely shocking and the Kiev front and northern front have utterly collapsed so those predictions were not too wide of the mark.

good point but its a long way from Melitipol to the Belorussian border though, you'd think they would need to have made their mind up weeks in advance

Also means if the Belarusians or Russians attack from that route then they are up against battle proven and hardened troops.

I very much doubt that Lukashenko will send in the Belarusian troops as he will be finished if he does. The Russians have sent train loads of draftees into Belarus but they'll just be slaughtered if they go over the border.

Well they were (some what like their Slavic big "brothers" currently) indulging in a little "ethnic cleansing" and assorted war crimes. I think you left that part out in the haste to proclaim US/NATO "just as evil" etc.

Shure whats wrong with a bit of the old genocide you (or Russia's current leaders...) may say, no harm in it & we've all done it!

If a genocide is a really big success you can always claim afterwards "it never happened" (or [whisper quietly] if it somehow might have, a little bit, they kind of deserved it!) and noone will be there to dispute you.

On the flipside, Russian conscripts are arriving on trains with nothing but the packs on their backs, some of them have filmed themselves just camping out in the open with no tents. If the Russians can't get their winter logistics sorted they are also in trouble, low morale will only plummet lower.