• @[email protected]
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    2810 months ago

    It’s actually kinda incredible how long it took for Ukraine to decide to start being retaliatory towards Russia considering it is absolutely a full war for them. Pretty impressive restraint but I don’t blame them for striking back.

    • @[email protected]
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      2310 months ago

      They have had to delicately balance on a line of how much they can retaliate without putting funding from other countries at risk.

      • brianorca
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        710 months ago

        They have also developed their own internal weapons capable of such strikes, so they can still abide by the restrictions set by allies on the use of certain imported weapon systems.

    • @[email protected]
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      1510 months ago

      I agree, except that it’s not retaliation when you hit strategic targets in a country that is engaged in a war of annihilation against your country.

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        510 months ago

        I mean I agree in spirit but I don’t think Ukraine would be striking strategic targets in another country unless they had been invaded first, so, by just straight definition alone, it is still in fact retaliation and should be recognized as such since it does remind people that Ukraine are absolutely the victim an Russia hit first.