re: Bombing Civilians and war

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How may times did you or anyone above or below you call in an Airstrike of a hospital, apartment building, grocery store or any other civilian target with no cause to do so?

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This happened often in Desert Storm. Shelters, farmhouses, manufacturing facilities. And even if a hospital wasn’t directly bombed the bombs falling near the buildings weakened the structures and destroyed the infrastructure to the building.

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And even if a hospital wasn’t directly bombed

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We bombed a hospital in Iraq and in Afghanistan.

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The United States hasn't fought a real war in several generations. Since the end of the Korean War most of our conflicts have been waged against farmers armed with AK-47s.

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WTF is a “real” war?

Masses of uniformed armies from belligerent nations meeting on a battlefield is largely an anomaly of the Westphalian era.

Guerrilla and insurgency tactics are some of the oldest forms of warfare.

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Masses of uniformed armies from belligerent nations meeting on battlefield is an anomaly of the Westphalian era.

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The "Westphalian era"? Are you referring to the treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War? If so...

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Masses of uniformed armies from belligerent nations meeting on battlefield is an anomaly of the Westphalian era.

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This doesn't make any sense.

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All these do gooders that want to jump into a hot mess in Ukraine. Calling Putin a thug and War Criminal might want to pick up a History book on WWII. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman want to have a word with you. Does Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki just for starters ring a bell???

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Moral equivalency right?

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The war crimes narrative is yet another that will come back to bite the US

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I don't even think it's a narrative to anyone who knows about how war and combat works and what's a legitimate target.

Seems to be nothing more than social media parroting an agenda.

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There is no morality to war. That's why it's to be avoided at all costs. If one is to go to war, it should be for right and just reasons.

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This is correct.

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Say what you want about the Ukrainian government and its corruption but Russia invaded them, not the other way around. Putin is the aggressor and he's attacking because he wants to restore the borders of the old Russian Empire. That's what it comes down to at the end of the day. He opposes NATO on his borders not because he sees them as a threat to Russian sovereignty but because it prevents him from expanding westward into the Baltic states, Romania, and Poland.

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All of this^^^^ is nothing more than what you've been told or seen on tv. You or I have nothing more than speculation as to what is actually happening or your personal opinion.

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Several in Congress appear to be coaching the parrots

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Show me one of them that doesn't love some Raytheon money.

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based on the man's previous statements.

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Show me where he stated this(He opposes NATO on his borders not because he sees them as a threat to Russian sovereignty but because it prevents him from expanding westward into the Baltic states, Romania, and Poland.)

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The "Westphalian era"? Are you referring to the treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War? If so...

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I’m referring to European wars fought after the Peace of Westphalia, which set political precedents for recognizing national sovereignty and established norms of inter-state diplomacy between European nations in the modern era. Clausewitz’s assumption that war itself is a rational act and a reflection of a nation’s national interests was largely an outgrowth of Westphalian notions of statehood — that nation-states represent the unified interests of citizens, armies and the heads of government.

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This doesn't make any sense.

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What doesn’t make any sense is your claim that the United States has not fought a “real” war in many generations: insurgency and guerrilla warfare is “real” war. Such asymmetrical forms of warfare is indeed the norm in the history of human conflict: the Roman Empire was ultimately toppled by the asymmetrical warfare tactics of the Northern European and Central Asian tribes.

Recommend reading: The Transformation of War by Martin Van Crevald.

Creveld, a famed Israeli historian and military theorist, argues that contemporary warfare will increasingly be characterized by low-intensity conflicts that eschews high-tech weaponry and armies equipped by nation-states. Instead, armed conflict will involve amorphous factions with allegiances based on tribal, ethnic and religious identities: such warfare will blur the lines between civilians and solders, while also calling into question the Western distinction between terrorism and war.