(October 8, 2022 at 8:22 pm)Belacqua Wrote: It's appropriate that the bridge attack would be used in memes. And that Ukraine would troll about it on the Internet. That was its purpose.
The bridge is open again for traffic both ways. The attack didn't accomplish any military or strategic goal -- no supply lines were cut. Like so many things in this war, it was done as a media event. A big explosion looks like a win, and we know that people forget things almost immediately, so it doesn't matter if there are long-term consequences or not.
One thing it has accomplished: the very civilized people who oppose Russian barbarism are applauding and joking about suicide bombs that kills civilians. That's who we are now.
In other news (that won't get reported in Anglophone media): tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Paris today demanding that France get out of NATO, which is increasingly seen by Europeans as a force for oppression.
Actually, what it did achieve is to show Russians that their haven in the stolen Crimea are not safe and that the Ukrainian resistance can reach them, especially now that the Russian army is getting their arses kicked.
Also, the French protesting about something,
How unprecedented!
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
