r/InternationalNews May 13 '24

Ukraine/Russia Ukrainian missile strikes Russian apartment building in Belgorod

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u/Zxasuk31 May 13 '24

The fascinating thing is both are “at war“ but Ukraine and Russia there’s not mutilated women and children, etc. what’s going on?

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u/lostonaforum May 14 '24

There are different forms of war, it's not all in the same. You have to look at the many factors of what are very different conflicts. At this time it seems that the Ukrainian conflict is in a trench warfare situation where it's (somewhat) away from civilians. Whereas the Palestinian conflict is full on scorched earth tactics. Again lots of factors, but war is often instigated with a casus belli (Latin for a situation to justify a war). Russia doesn't really have one, there is no justification. Whereas Israel has the excuse of the Hamas hostages. Now most have agreed that for Israel their casus belli is extremely irrelevant for the damage they caused and the war crimes they've committed but unfortunately the rules of war are not fair or ethical. It's why they can get unconditional support from America and the UN is even more useless in doing anything.

Just to reiterate this is just scratching the surface of why these two conflicts have had very different outcomes.