Commentary
For Ukrainians, Dec. 16 was another terrible day of war. Russia fired 76 missiles into their country, most of the missiles slamming into cities. On Dec. 19 Russia launched a similar attack, this time Iranian-made kamikaze (self-detonating) drones augmenting the missiles.
According to Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin propagandists, the exploding drones and the short and medium range missile barrage struck military targets and “infrastructure.”
Infrastructure is a colorless and elastic term that can mean almost anything. A civilian home is infrastructure, and so is a personal home electrical generator. A taxicab can move troops. Presto—it’s a military target.
Mass attacks using missiles and drones armed with high explosive munitions with cities their target—it appears Putin is pursuing an ad hoc form of strategic bombing….