This is why Russia declares so many of the dead as "missing in action" and refuses to pay the families. If the Kremlin started to properly pay out then Russia would go broke. Russia would need to spend 6% of its entire 2024 budget to pay wounded soldiers and families of dead troops https://www.businessinsider.com/rus...es-6-percent-annual-budget-researchers-2024-7
Russia has been plotting to kill the CEO of the big German defense firm Rheinmetall: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/us-germany-foiled-russian-assassination-plot/index.html
“We have heard that half a million [Iraqi] children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima,” asked Stahl, “And, you know, is the price worth it?” “I think that is a very hard choice,” Albright answered, “but the price, we think, the price is worth it.” https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/... have heard that half,the price is worth it.”
Sanctions, not bombs or bullets. The Iraqis chose the path that they would take at that time: Albright, the first female secretary of state in United States history, made the remarks during a 60 Minutes interview. Correspondent Lesley Stahl discussed with the then-United Nations ambassador how Iraq had been suffering from the sanctions placed on the country following 1991's Gulf War. "We have heard that half a million [Iraqi] children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima," Stahl said. "And, you know, is the price worth it?" "I think that is a very hard choice," Albright answered, "but the price, we think, the price is worth it."
so you say closing someone in the room and starving him to death is better than killing him with a gun? common - USA did genocide in Iraq by killing millions of people including at least 500 000 children without any reason and just plainly says - it was worth it you really just need to shut up about Russia as war crimes USA committed and continues to commit absolutely horrendous and magnitudes worse than what RUssia ever done
Putin, having miscalculated, is increasingly desperate He went to North Korea because he is dependent on Kim's goodwill https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/11/putin-having-miscalculated-is-increasingly-despera/
Even if I agreed, which I don't, you are saying if one does it it is ok if any does as well. One big difference though is the U.S. did not enter Iraq to conquer and stay forever, as your Putey Pu plans to do.