Quote (Santara @ Aug 30 2023 11:03pm)
It is *not* escalation. I'd agree if they were using American missiles instead of homemade drones. But tit for tat is continuation, not escalation. Escalation is taking it to a higher degree. Navy, not Army.
The US has been very careful to make sure American hardware isn't aimed into Russia itself, so as to not give Russia an excuse to claim that the US is fighting the war rather than supporting Ukraine's fight. Russia would be justified in complaining about fighting the US. But Russia doesn't get to complain about fighting Ukraine.
Look, contrary to the beliefs of some people around here, I am not pro-russian. As I look at the conflict, russia invaded. ukraine is the defender. when ukraine is capable of launching attacks inside russia, and launches attacks on russia, that is an escalation to the conflict. I dont understand why you cant agree with this?
put the shoe on the other foot. the US bombed the middle east for years. in retaliation, we had 9/11 world trade center. that was a retaliation and the rest as they say, is history. It escalated the conflict and the US responded by further escalating. Can you acknowledge this point? When you consider that the US has enabled Ukraine, its a much of a muchness as to what was used to carry out the attack.
ramping up attacks on russian soil is an escalation. If you dont think that is true then imagine if there were multiple 9/11's in the US. would they be seen as retaliatory, and not an escalation? to my mind if that happened the US would have gone full rambo above and beyond what they actually did (which was already full rambo).
This post was edited by ferdia on Aug 30 2023 04:26pm