Biden’s most cynical and disgusting political ploy

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1. The Biden Administration can’t resist evil, apparently.

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2. No trivial concern since the bystander civilians will presumably be Ukrainians in most cases. And not even Russian speakers or pro-Russian, in many cases.

   That’s a pretty scorched earth mindset, to use such on one’s own soil.

   Even Ukraine does not currently face the level of national extinction that faced many losers in WW2. And even if one did face a war with stakes that high, one more often uses things like this on the enemy population, not one’s own.

   Consider all the explosives, fragmentary and incendiary included, that the Allies dropped on German, and not only German but somewhat other Axis or occupied cities.

   If things had gone badly enough, I question whether the RAF, in defending Britain against German invasion and using all weapons available against German troops, would have gone so far as to drop cluster or incendiary munitions on English towns and villages even if German troops were near.

   And yet, I’ve talked myself into it. If those German troop concentrations had been in or close enough to a Kentish village, yes the RAF would have used all weapons available nonetheless if they thought it could or would disrupt a German offensive, even though the civilians were indeed their own. We know they would have. The UK was storing up everything from poison gas to biologicals, as well as the aforementioned cluster and incendiaries, for home defence.

   And here we speak of Ukraine and Russia, two nations who have shown many times they understand scorched earth on a scale far beyond this, and are willing to lay waste whole regions and sacrifice whole populations to deny them to the enemy. And largely with popular endorsement of the practice. This particular war is a modest example.

   I don’t think we in the west, not even places like Poland, any longer think this way. But we used to, at least a bit. Plus, we don’t have any need to.

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