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It's not terrorism when it's a major state actor and they're not hiding their involvement. That's just war.
Uhm, no, based on your definition not even the official 9/11 story's Al-Quaida would be considered terrorists because they supposedly admitted to what they were doing:
FBI's terrorism definitions:
Encyclopedia Britannica:
Cambridge:
None of your definitions match Ukraine, which attacks military targets during an active war started by a nation that invaded them.
Now, Russia actively bombing civilian targets to generate a climate of fear in a population to bring a particular political objective, seems to awfully match that definition.
What's so interesting to me is that from much of what I've read - bombing civilian populations as a way to end a war has basically never worked. It was pushed heavily in WWII due to I think LeMay theories, but basically strengthened morale to stand up to the enemy instead.
Of course, not saying the Russians, or really anyone who gets into a war is necessarily behaving rationally, but this is sadly very destructive with very little history saying it'll help anyone achieve any goal.
Yeah, in case of Ukrainians they know that if they surrender it still won't be over, the next thing will be killing them and moving them to far east until the Ukrainian identity is completely erased.
The constant refrain of "Russia wants to kill every Ukrainian". It's never made sense. There has never been any reason to believe that the goal is to kill Ukrainians.
Can you lay out exactly why you think that Russia will kill Ukrainians once the war is over? Can you lay out why you think the goal is to kill Ukrainians?
Is it? Can you point me to anywhere that that's the stated goal?
Never has the stated goal included wanting to genocide Ukrainians. To say that's the case is to pretend your imagination is reality.
Do you believe things will get better if they have full control over Ukraine?
Thanks for explaining war to me. Helpful.