Millbrook
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What Hammas did on October 7th was abhorrent and afterwards Hamas leaders celebrated their barbarism and called for it to be repeated.What Israel is doing in Gaza is abhorrent and the Western governments aiding them in this are culpable for the outcome, whatever that is.
However, that doesn't mean all war is unjust or that all conflicts are equal. Ukraine is defending itself from an external aggressor. Putin isn't going to change his plans through any democratic process.
Unfortunately Russian citizens have allowed it to get this far, much like UK citizens have allowed the Tories a rapacious decade. The fact that plenty of people aren't happy with it is immaterial when the majority are willing to put up with no end of privation.
The civilian population always suffers for the people they allow to hold power. It was always thus.
Sinwar proclaimed: “The leaders of the occupation should know. October 7 was just a rehearsal.”
Ghazi Hamad, a member of the Hamas politburo, called for more attacks and the annihilation of Israel, saying “We will do this again and again.”
Faced with such genocidal intent exactly what should a government do, whether Israeli or Ukrainian?