[pjc50]

There were significant civilian casualties right from the start of the war in Ukraine, and several massacred villages.

Russian air defense shot down a civilian airliner mostly full of Dutch nationals and the response was just condemnation and tweaking the sanctions a bit.

[teleforce]

My heartfelt sympathy to the MH17 victims and families, but the airplane was flying in the risky warzone. That does not discount the fact that it's an atrocious act by the Russian backed military.

However, to send missile to primary school killing hundreds of school girls on the very first day of the war, if intentionally is just pure evil.

[shiroiuma]

It wasn't intentional; the building was used by the military years before. The US had really badly out-of-date intelligence and was negligent in updating it. There's absolutely no military benefit to bombing a girl's school.

Remember Hanlon's Razor, and remember how incompetent the Trump Administration has been in everything ever since he took office.

[srean]

But 10~15 years outdated intelligence about an area considered a significant adversary that is penetrated by oodles of humint sources... hard to believe.

Israel has hit schools before knowing full well that it's a school (in war against Egypt). May well be policy.

Many of these kids would have been kids of IRGC. Likely that was the reason.

[anabab]

> There's absolutely no military benefit to bombing a girl's school.

Objection. For a hypothetical actor wanting to set the world economy on fire there might be a benefit of enraging the enemy to lower the risk of early deescalation.