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To an otherwise defenceless country, it's really the same thing. Indiscriminately flattening buildings without notifying civilians to move, destroying industries, stealing their resources and reserves.

Who can recover from this, especially a small nation? You might as well declare everything to be radioactive.

So they'd react harshly even when they started it.

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> Indiscriminately flattening buildings without notifying civilians to move

Boy they've really normalised this, haven't they?

No, it's not okay to destroy civilian infrastructure and make people homeless just because you dropped a pamphlet 30 minutes before you did do

Nothing happened to Israel for doing it. Have any level headed countries imposed any sanctions on them? Just condemning the leadership doesn’t count.

Korea. The US bombed every building they could and at the end were dumping bombs because they'd run out of targets.

> Korea.

What are you talking about?

The US never bombed (South) Korea and they certainly didn't win the air war against North Korea.

Back when North and South Korea were Korea, the US killed more than 10% of the civilian population and razed every building of what is now North Korea.

I would suggest that should be a little less acceptable in the era of precision weaponry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#Air-to-ground_opera...

> North Korea ranks as among the most heavily bombed countries in history,[305] and the U.S. dropped a total of 635,000 tons of bombs

> Almost every substantial building in North Korea was destroyed during the war.

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