This makes me sick
Two particularly impressive Ukrainian operations I found videos of lately.
A very nicely done FPV ambush against a group of Russian soldiers:
https://video.nostr.build/fc58ab7b822f667a5a56695080bf2eb75f581686efb42a78bf133c3e57e18804.mp4
...and an attack against a Russian fuel train – allegedly with long range drones – timed just right to destroy it in the middle of the central train station in Salsk, Russia:
https://video.nostr.build/2ec49c595e20f0ce69627b14a43754a021ed105acb415d6de6bd571f55731b0b.mp4
Obviously, taking out the train station as well is a great use of all that fuel; 380km from the front line.
Discussion
What about this guy?
https://cdn.hzrd149.com/2a89a12c263ea73a2404fd52343b806b777f7dd64def71e3d181a56e6b809909.webp
I don't know your situation, but maybe don't celebrate death
He could have stayed home.
He's a Russian soldier in Ukraine. It's highly likely that he's a volunteer who signed up for the massive pay given to Russian volunteers (it's illegal under Russian law to send conscripts to Ukraine itself, and this law is followed with rare exceptions).
Ultimately he was trying to murder the Ukrainian soldiers who are in turn keeping me and everyone else in Kyiv safe.
Fuck him. It's a good thing he's dead. Given the opportunity I would have no qualms killing him myself.
Over the past weekend, according to reports, at least 27 civilians were killed and 105 wounded as a result of russian shelling. so, how do you think I feel as ukrainian about this moron on the photo?
You probably dislike him to say the least, but your ukrainian so I can understand that. my point was that all the Americans and other keyboard warriors online who get obsessed with this shouldn't be cheer-leading for a tragic war they have no part in and will never feel the effects of (loosing family and friends)
Cheering on Ukrainians killing Russians isn't "cheer-leading for a tragic war". It's cheering for victory over evil.
As for "having no part in it", I'm literally in Kyiv right now, for good reasons. Among them being there's a big Bitcoin community in Ukraine and this trip I did two panels at Bitcoin events.
You're ultimately just trying to make excuses to let evil go unpunished. Evil that if not stopped in Ukraine, will certainly continue to spread. Russia has been invading neighbors for centuries. As a Canadian I'm well aware of the fact that Russia and Canada share a long northern border, and Russia has been challenging Canadian sovereignty in the north.
I didn't know you were in Ukrainian, so your situation makes a little more sense to me now.
I'm not trying to justify anything or take sides in this "good vs evil" fight, only trying to make a point that I'm so far removed from it that it does not make sense for people like myself to have strong opinion on it. that said seeing people celebrating killing whether justified or not makes me uncomfortable because its not something people do without being intentional about it
Celebrating the deaths of evil people doing evil things is not radical or unjustified in any way. It's perfectly normal, and healthy.
Any reasonable person should be able to figure out good-vs-evil in this conflict.
Well said. Kyiv was attacked again yesterday and civilians were killed, children among them. The Russian soldiers attacking Ukraine on their own sovereign land like this should be stopped, even if it means their death. Self defense against absolute evil.
...and yet again this morning: nostr:nevent1qqswa5hpdydy9jpe6lc7hzc7dx9gkn7xzvreqyn9cqcmdq5aku8pzpcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgsve2jcud7fnjzmchn4gq52wx9agey9uhfukv69dy0v4wpuw4w53nqrqsqqqqqpn3v3v2
I actually heard that particular attack – and indirectly saw it reflected off a nearby building. An extremely loud attack even though I was multiple kilometers away from it.
I don't think one need to be ukranian to get the correct picture of this war. I know examples how outsiders have a thorough understanding of everything here. it is just pragmatic-clear-thinking vs "omg war is bad russians are good stop funding the war".
also I know that Peter has been to Ukraine and probably knows firsthand what shelling a peaceful city looks like, and that clears the mind of mindless pacifism.
You have a good point, but in my defense I am not a pacifist. I simply do no have an opinion on the war because I have not put the time and effort into gathering all the information and thinking through it.
I'm in a somewhat privileged position where it does not effect me, so for my own sake I do not need to have an opinion, or at least not a strong one.
I'm not trying to dismiss the war. I'm just tired of seeing people being radicalized over something that is on the other side of the world and isn't part of their lives.
We're just trying to survive here, sorry if that makes you tired. I've already noticed that probably the whole world would be happy if russians had killed us all long ago and there was no more news about Ukraine.