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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned that it was "inevitable" that "war" would come to Russia after authorities there were forced to temporarily close a busy Moscow airport following an overnight drone attack on the capital.

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[-] mea_rah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it would be unwise thing to do for sure. (on top of being immoral) I believe there's some serious effort by Ukrainian government to actually prevent this.

When you think about it, it's not like Ukraine is some uniform body, there is a lot of groups with lot of interests. Quite frankly also a lot of broken people that just saw one too many of their relatives dying under russian rocket barrage..

So it's almost a miracle that there isn't some sort of nasty bomb attack IRA style somewhere in russia on weekly basis. And if something like that eventually happens, it would hardly be surprising. For me that's one of the contexts for Zelensky's quote in the article. You just can't shell civilians on daily basis for a year and expect to not reap some revenge. It might not be government doing this, just a bunch of people that had enough. And as much as you'd like to stay on the moral high ground, I wouldn't blame these people one bit.

I really hope it does not happen for Ukraine's sake, but at the same time I would understand if it did.

[-] sudneo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Quite frankly also a lot of broken people that just saw one too many of their relatives dying under russian rocket barrage…

And I would definitely not expect them to make balanced judgement calls with morale and humanity in mind, of course.

I really hope it does not happen for Ukraine’s sake, but at the same time I would understand if it did.

Yeah, I think those are two very distinct concepts in fact. I have this kind of conversations on a weekly basis, where I end up usually disagreeing at some point with my fiancee (who is Ukrainian) about certain topics. I do understand of course that the hatred is real and justified. These analysis are of course a privilege for people who can do them with a certain level of detachment.

[-] mea_rah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

These analysis are of course a privilege for people who can do them with a certain level of detachment.

That's a very good way to put it.

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