Preventing peace talks and prolonging the war will have two consequences:
Thing is, you thinking about it as Western citizen. Leeches that sucking blood from fighting Russia doesn't give a **** about what happens in few years. There isn't visible future for Russia after Putin is dead. And he is 70 y.o ill ****er that could die tomorrow. But, it doesn't means there isn't beneficiaries in this story. War is source of money for thousands people that "building" nonexistent apartments, infrastructure or defence lines that tomorrow would be destroyed by nonexistent Ukrainian missile. Billions of dollars were already stolen and they, obviously, don't want to stop money flow. Its not that hard to pay someone to correct missile guidelines and hit hospital instead of factory.
I accept that it's a convenient source of money for oligarchs but that slightly downplays the evil actions being undertaken by the Russian Federation as part of this façade; if you want to steal taxpayers' money, just tender non-existant healthcare or transport contracts to your mates' companies. You don't have to bomb civilians in a neighbouring country as part of that process to make it 'look real'.
You do know that, targeting an hospital with a guided weapon, is quite easy, right? You just point out where you want the missile to go, and the missile goes there. No need to pay anyone to mess up with the missile.
Different sources for different people. War is beneficial for generals, first of all. In peace time they did millions, now billions.
Russia invade to conquer Kiev in three days and set Putin puppet as new president. It didn't work, but long war created new beneficiaries.
Every missile should be programmed with specific route to avoid AA. Its not straight line from bomber to destination.
Its Russian missile we talking.
There's still the human factor. It all depends on the human dude guy who puts in the coordinates and/or does the targeting. Atleast until AI becomes widespread in precision weapons, and is allowed to make decisions, which will complicate stuff even further.
Yes, and now they keep going to annex as much land as they can. That's why some of their "peace" proposals, involve not only the land they are occupying right now, but a sizeable amount of territory that russian forces do not have under control.
Not every missile, but yes, there's that option. What I meant was that, for the missile, there's no need to change parameters to hit an hospital any differently than it would need to hit an air base or a bunker or whatever.
And how its confronting my post about beneficiaries?
Wat? Programmers need to program coordinates into missile so it can avoid AA and hit the target. Its not as simple as general pointing something on Google maps and missile hit it. My point was that paying to the programmer to do wrong data for missile isn't beyond realm of possibility.
Every Russian X-101 missile, last time I checked we talked about it, not something else
My take on this all is they do it exactly for money, gas and oil to be precise. Around 2014 huge gas and oil reserves were discovered in the east of Ukraine, thats when it all started.
There are reports that people with heavy wounds being send back to frontlines after initial stabilisation in hospital being done. Without fingers, with shrapnel in body, even without legs or eye.
Initially its money. First payment is 1.500.000+ with avg salary 30.000+. Salary for 4 years in one day + 6 salaries every month.
Atomism.
