Selective Moral Outrage

 

Some folks in the West are fuming at the urban fighting being conducted by Russia in some of the Ukraine’s cities, for ensample:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60567162

This is once again Western hypocrisy on grand display.  If they are going to charge Pres Putin with war crimes for this, they need to do the same for Pres Bush, PM Blair, and others in their ‘Coalition of the Willing’ that demolished Iraqi cities like Fallujah during a war that was begun under false pretenses:

The battle proved to be the bloodiest of the war and the bloodiest battle involving American troops since the Vietnam War. Comparisons with the Battle of Hue City and the Pacific campaign of World War II were made.[53] Coalition forces suffered a total of 107 killed and 613 wounded during Operation Phantom Fury. U.S. forces had 54 killed and 425 wounded in the initial attack in November.[11] By 23 December when the operation was officially concluded, the casualty number had risen to 95 killed and 560 wounded.[12] British forces had 4 killed and 10 wounded in two separate attacks in the outskirts of Fallujah.[13][14] Iraqi forces suffered 8 killed and 43 wounded.[11] Estimates of insurgent casualties are complicated by a lack of official figures. Most estimates place the number of insurgents killed at around 1,200[54] to 1,500,[15] with some estimations as high as over 2,000 killed.[11][12] Coalition forces also captured approximately 1,500 insurgents during the operation.[15] The Red Cross estimated directly following the battle that some 800 civilians had been killed during the offensive.[17][55][56][57] The Iraq Body Count project reported between 581 and 670 civilian deaths resulting from the battle.[16] According to Mike Marqusee, some Iraqi NGOs and medical workers gave higher estimates of between 4,000 and 6,000 total dead, mostly civilians.[58]

The 1st Marine Division fired a total of 5,685 high-explosive 155mm artillery rounds during the battle.[59] The 3rd Marine Air Wing (aviation assets only) expended 318 precision bombs, 391 rockets and missiles, and 93,000 machine gun and cannon rounds.[59]

Fallujah suffered extensive damage to residences, mosques, city services, and businesses. The city, once referred to as the "City of Mosques", had over 200 pre-battle mosques of which 60 or so were destroyed in the fighting. Many of these mosques had been used as arms caches and weapon strongpoints by Islamist forces. Of the roughly 50,000 buildings in Fallujah, between 7,000 and 10,000 were estimated to have been destroyed in the offensive and from half to two-thirds of the remaining buildings had notable damage.[60][61]

While pre-offensive inhabitant figures are unreliable, the nominal population was assumed to have been 200,000–350,000. One report states that both offensives, Operation Vigilant Resolve and Operation Phantom Fury, created 200,000 internally displaced persons who are still living elsewhere in Iraq.[62]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Fallujah#Aftermath

The hubris and blindness of the West seem to know no bounds, and the world is in danger because of it.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!