Comments by "Heads Full Of Eyeballs" (@HeadsFullOfEyeballs) on "Why is Russia bombing civilians?" video.

@ДанилПоздняков-в8т Autocracies are good at mobilizing resources at their rulers' whims. That's kind of what autocracies are for, after all: to let the ruler do whatever he wants whenever he wants it. Democracy has a lot of advantages, but rapid decision-making isn't one of them.
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Why do people keep saying this whenever Germany delays the supply of some particular weapon to Ukraine? This has happened a dozen times now, with everything from RPGs to tanks to missiles, and no information harmful to Scholz ever surfaced after Germany got around to supplying those weapons after all.
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He's an officer in the Danish military and a professional military analyst.
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@StPiter111 None of those wars were NATO operations, so you're 0 out of 8 so far. And Cuba was never even attacked outside of some silly American commando operations, so I don't know what that's about.
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Of course they'll have elections. Putin will probably even get the majority of the vote, because no credible opposition candidate has been allowed to run. And to make extra sure, they're going to fake ballots and intimidate voters.
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NATO isn't fighting in Ukraine. If it was, Russian forces there would be crushed in a week. Putin knows this, that's why he hasn't touched a hair on a NATO country's head despite constant Russian propaganda claiming that the war is really against NATO.
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@StPiter111 So you concede that NATO didn't "do it around the world for decades" like you originally claimed?
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Of course Ukraine was shelling Doneck, they were fighting Russian-backed separatist forces and Russian "little green men" there.
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America and allies killed loads of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan. That was very bad and they should never have done it. Russia is currently killing loads of innocent people in Ukraine. That is also very bad and they should stop doing it immediately.
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@toto-yf8tc You don't have to wedge your gross culture war obsessions into every conversation, you know.
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That one's easy and not very interesting though: Israel doesn't want to risk its own troops in ground assaults. So they blow up their targets from afar instead, which kills a lot of civilians as well because Gaza is densely populated and they have nowhere to go. They aren't deliberately targeting civilians as a strategy, they just don't care about (Palestinian) civilian lives.
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@misarthim6538 Israel's own propaganda says that Hamas is preventing civilians from leaving for safe areas. So even under their own framework they know for a fact that they will kill large numbers of helplessly trapped civilians with their attacks. They could avoid most of those deaths by going in on the ground, but that would expose their own troops to much higher casualties. So they are choosing to trade Palestinian civilian lives for Israeli soldiers' lives.
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That was true at the start of the war, but surely they've gathered up-to-date intelligence by this point? I mean, they have their own spy satellites, they just have to sit some guys down at a computer to evaluate the pictures.
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They were shot down over Russian territory, weren't they? Hard to get photos of that.
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@Jole30 I have no idea how many jets they shot down. My point is that it would be very hard for them to get photographic evidence of it either way. So the absence of photos isn't in itself evidence that they're lying about it.
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Nah, there's just a faction in the government that still has cold feet about getting "more involved" in attacks on Russia. They worry that Ukraine will use Taurus's long range to attack Russian territory. Also, any targeting data for the missiles would have to be supplied by Germany, for technical reasons. This is mostly coming from the SPD. The two other coalition partners (Greens and FDP) are open to sending the missiles.
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