Quote (Prox1m1ty @ May 11 2024 01:56pm)
Terrible, awful and dishonest comparison.
Gaza to Ukraine?
One is a few hundred football pitches, the other is hundreds of miles of a front.
Gaza has a population density of 14,000 people per square mile
Belgorod has a population density of 150 people per square mile
Even the most surgical strikes in Gaza have collateral damage, as Hamas purposefully hides its military apparatus behind human shields.
This is an empty playground with an unoccupied parking lot in the middle of a suburban neighborhood with no targets of value anywhere nearby.
This is what truly indiscriminate shelling looks like. Not "shelling civilian targets", this is simply untargeted shelling. Its not even killing anyone or causing serious damage, because its such a wanton and pointless attack
As Xisten says, this is completely nonsensical with Ukraine's lack of shells. It doesn't even properly terrorize a civilian population like razing apartment blocks would, it just wastes ammo while endangering what, random children?
Israel has taken measures at every step of the invasion to minimize civilian casualties, open evacuation corridors, and importantly- actually degrade and defeat Hamas by systematically tearing up their infrastructure and personnel. Ukraine has been bleeding away troops in a crumbling defense and wasting armor and ammo on totally pointless operations throughout the war. At every opportunity, Ukrainians are fed into a meat grinder or waste what little supplies they have just to make a transparent PR ploy. Like landing special forces on Tenderovsky Island only to get massacred, or all the armor they wasted in the crossborder raid into Kursk. Securing no objectives, causing no serious damage, taking heavy losses. And now when Russia is starting a major offensive that will push Ukrainian artillery out of range of Belgorod, they wasted their remaining ammo firing blindly at the city and striking completely at random. Blowing up a few cars, breaking the window at a hospital.
Of course there's a double standard. US weapons are being wasted on a pointless failed proxy war just to cause minimal spiteful damage at this point. Russia is probably going to overrun the remaining Donbas and we'll have supplied the weapons to bomb a couple playgrounds before the inevitable peace deal. Israel is going to completely subjugate Gaza, with or without us, and Joe Biden's bellyaching over losing votes in Michigan just makes us look even weaker and more indecisive on the world stage, as if that was possible after this Ukraine blunder.