I apologize to Iran.

I understand that conflict might not be worth it at this time, but I surely hope Tehran isn't counting on the US to stick to any agreements.

Good news is that all of these places were evacuated and the damage is minimal.

People might even be able to go home and not find a pile of wood and corrugated steel where their house was.

Honestly it barely even matters anymore.

We've had over two years that have firmly established that Ukraine will never admit to fault, even when air defence missiles slam into apartment blocks, or land on people in foreign countries. Just ridiculous extraordinary lies that leave even their allies shocked by their willingness to deny the clear truth.

We've had over two years that have firmly established that Russia is playing things extraordinarily ethically and doing their level best to (unexpectedly) meticulously avoid civilian casualties when striking targets behind the frontlines. Certainly, far more ethically than "international community" involved wars over the past 20 years.

I have no doubt that the Russians didn't plan to terrorbomb a children's hospital.

Airlines are desperate for anything with wings they can get their hands on right now, and even then they don't want to take the chance on Boeing.

Do the Russians actually intend to take Kharkov? Maybe. Maybe not. They've been bombing thermpower plants to encourage the population to leave the city, which suggests at a minimum that the Russians predict the fighting will cause massive damage to the residential areas of the city. It's hard to say whether they want to take it, or are simply leveraging it's potential to tie up Ukrainian troops. Either way, Ukraine will redeploy troops from Donbas to Kharkov, which means Donbas will fall within a couple of months.

Ukraine has essentially lost all capability to fight on the battlefield. Russia is now at peak performance in production and targeting times. Russia has gone from obsessing over destroying key enemy systems (artillery, anti-air, tanks) to casually flinging tons of cheap precision ordnance at conscripts.

The mounting number of Ukrainian casualties is actually nauseating, and the only thing the Ukrainians are now winning for their blood is a harsher peace deal.

We live in pretty shitty times. Witnessing a colonial nation undertake a meticulous and evil information age genocide is something new for Humans.

I bet they'll use sea water to try and annihilate the water table even more.

Literally braver than the troops.

telegraph getting upset about free markets?

How is Lukashenkos posting that powerful.

Really seems that way. A lot of the people who think they are "left" are just the losers in the capitalist system who would like the capitalist system to reward them for being white and living in the imperial core.

That's seriously what it boils down to??

I forgot what it was like to interact with that flavor of NPC.