[HN Gopher] Russian Missile Attack Levels Children's Hospital
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       Russian Missile Attack Levels Children's Hospital
        
       Author : tomohawk
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2024-07-11 19:55 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | jiggawatts wrote:
       | This was a few days ago and from my airmchair looks like a simple
       | "oops" mistake -- a legitimate(ish) target was apparently across
       | the street.
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       | When Russia had more ballistic rockets available something else
       | more horrifying was occurring that didn't gain much mainstream
       | attention: _using outdated maps for targeting._
       | 
       | About a year ago when a bunch of apartment blocks were blown up
       | by Russian missiles the journalists interviewed the locals. Often
       | they said something along the lines of: "Oh yes, there was a
       | military building there but it was demolished in the 90s and
       | replaced by the apartment building."
       | 
       | I just cannot express the depth of my dismay at this.
       | 
       | That Russia is basically stuck in time, like a fly in amber,
       | refusing to admit that anything happened after 1991.
       | 
       | That someone in an office took a 30 year old military map
       | (probably printed on yellowed paper!), shrugged their shoulders
       | and said: "good enough!" before setting the coordinates and
       | sending the launch order.
       | 
       | That the whole reason for this war is that Putin is old and
       | thinks the distant past, now _two generations ago_ is present
       | reality. Heck, their propaganda still talks about "nazis",
       | something that happened at a small scale _seventy years ago!_
       | 
       | It's hubris of the highest order with the deadliest of
       | consequences.
        
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