Almost 90 bombs were dropped in one region in just 24 hours.

Russia unleashed an unprecedented bombardment in southern Ukraine overnight in what local officials described as a “massive attack” in the conflict which has continued to rage even as the international community’s attention has moved to the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The Ukrainian Internal Affairs Ministry on Monday morning said Russia dropped at least “87 aerial bombs on populated areas of the Kherson region - the largest number for all time.” At least eight people were also injured in other Russian strikes carried out in the Odessa region further to the west on Sunday night.

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    Lots of other countries manage to fight terrorism without violating the Geneva Convention and killing over 10,000 civilians…

    Do you think Israel is just that incompetent they can’t?

    If so, how does it make sense to give a government so incompetent literal billions of dollars a year?

    But regardless of why the fact is the Geneva Convention is being openly violated. Which is a precedent that hurts literally every human on Earth

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      Lots of other countries manage to fight terrorism without violating the Geneva Convention and killing over 10,000 civilians

      Are there any that are fighting a region entirely ruled by one? Taliban and Al Qaeda come to mind, and those regions had 100k and 300k civilian deaths respectively, despite US working with local forces.

      And neither of those had the explicit intent of using civilians as human shields like Hamas is doing by building military tunnels under hospitals and civilian areas, or 15 years of control to build it around that idea.

      If so, how does it make sense to give a government so incompetent literal billions of dollars a year?

      That’s a different matter entirely. Other than that US military aid accounts for $3.8bil out of Israel’s already massive $23.4bil, I’d argue Israel is a greater asset to the US than the US is to Israel; it lets the US exert power and influence over the entire middle east.

      Here’s a concerning Biden clip from 30 years ago supporting that.: “Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.”

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        Well, that’s your opinion, and I don’t care much for Bidens opinion either.

        Over the decades of his political career, the only times he’s criticized Israels human rights abuses is to tell them it makes it harder for us to give them billions of dollars a year.

        He doesn’t care about murdered Palestinian citizens, he just wants to keep the pipeline going so US defense firms get funneled tax payer money.

        Do you not know anything about his political history before 2008?

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          It’s the same reason all American Presidents are “friendly” with Saudia Arabia, also. They have something we want.