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  Eastern rite Christmas is next month, so they were just celebrating their own genocidal nature.
context: These fucks shelled a supermarket on Christmas eve. Of the countless acts of evil perpetrated by Russia, small and large, this one hit me. >
  
  I don't really know what the goal of this is? One of the reasons targeting civilians was banned is that it has no military value as it does nothing to lower the population's support for the war. This is just cruel and guarantees that Russia will stay isolated until Putin's regime ends. 
  Russia's only hope for victory is to end Western support for the war and constantly committing war crimes does the complete opposite. If anything support is increasing and there doesn't seem to be much public resistance to Ukraine being sent more and more and more advanced weapons. At this point I think a lot of people would even support direct involvement. >
  
  “Strategic bombing” standing alone has never ended a single war in its century-long history. 
  It usually has the inverse effect: it hardens the civilian population, and puts the entire nation on a war footing. >
  
  What a nice thing to do to celebrate Jesus's birthday.