This whole idea of "using civilians as a shield" when you defend your home country/town is beyond stupid to me on all fronts. What are you even going to do when the enemy tries to attack you and you defend your city? Like, what action is there that in theory could not be labeled as "using civilians as a shield"? How stupid is that even? Of course I hide within or behind buildings in a city, and of course there are civilians. But I as a defender don't make the civilians a shield.
If I run through my city with a table in front of my head and somebody asks me what that is, I would answer: a table. But when some faggot starts shooting arrows at me, that table might suddenly turn into a shield. We have an AGGRESSOR here and that aggressor is Russia and nobody else. The Ukrainians don't turn their civilians into shields. The Russians turn the civilians into shields. The whole logic behind accusing Ukrainian military of using civilians as a shield is totally beyond me.
Yes, fucking Ukrainian military doesn't stand in line on the streets waiting for their headshot. Instead the immoral Ukrainian military uses "civilians as a shield" in the city and country they seek to defend against genocide.
I usually refrain from getting too political in this forum, but this drives me nuts. Just get out of Ukraine and we can end the discussion about what is a "shield" and what is a "target".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60772331Attacked: theatre sheltering 1,000+ civilians. A maternity hospital. A church.
Even IF Ukrainian military "used civilians as a shield", how the fuck can you still fire a missile straight into a maternity hospital? Like, what the heck?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/world/europe/bucha-shooting-video.html. ("Russian soldiers opened fire on a cyclist in Bucha, new video shows.")
I am all for looking at conflicts from a historical perspective in oder to understand the reasoning behind certain actions, but there are actions that regardless of their historical context can't ever be justified. Perhaps Hitler got bullied by a Jewish boy in elementary school, well, sure, then kill a whole nation later on as revenge. Makes perfect sense to some here on this forum as it seems.
What Russia is doing in Ukraine can't ever be justified, never ever...
The Russian population at large isn't too blame, considering that Putin puts even children into prison (
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russian-children-detained-in-kremlins-crackdown-on-dissent-cfqj8qxv3)
Edit: The only person using civilians as a shield here is Putin by causing a famine, blaming the West for it, and watch Africans and others slowly die their death until the very last breath, until the body is too weak to breath once more because of malnutrition. That to me is using "civilians as a shield". Civilians that really, really never ever can't be blamed for anything.