Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 13d
Ukrainians (most likely) assassinated a Russian Major General at his home near Moscow yesterday, yet another in a long list of assassinations of Russians (e.g. the EW warfare expert, Yevgeny Rytikov, killed with a car bomb earlier this week). https://video.nostr.build/704010ad864830f584cc6608ec58e537e07921e56cc3fbc00819feab058d20a9.mp4 https://image.nostr.build/c3b1cf99e1a3e266fa754fe602404559fb8926db5ea510a6aebc8a67c0e7b21d.jpg One interesting detail: the assassination seems to have been done with an IED made of grenades planted in car they parked on the street outside his apartment, probably triggered remotely with a webcam. Not all of the grenades exploded at once, which meant that after the first explosion, additional secondaries kept on happening. Now think about it: suppose the general had only been wounded, not killed. A stream of secondary explosions would discourage anyone from getting close enough to help, maximizing the chances they he does in fact die. Smart. https://video.nostr.build/88fb9144d589a0ad281008e25cc23f323022c509a9e16f7a2fbc94e422adf010.mp4 Russia does follow-up "double-tap" air strikes all the time on Ukrainian civilians to try to kill rescue crews. Using a similar tactic on Russia for assassinations is more than fair.
Until the aggression is over it'd be unethical of you to go back.
Yeah, good chance I don't get to visit Russia again in my lifetime...
