Writing Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

Dec 19 2024 The Guardian

Dmitry Medvedev says editors of the Times are ‘legitimate military targets’

Dmitry Medvedev , the former Russian president, and the current Russian security council deputy head, posted on Telegram, that the editors of the Times newspaper are “legitimate military targets”.

I must have missed the news about Russia declaring war on the UK, but then again there are so many news stories these days that little bits and pieces easily fall through the gaps.

Maybe it is just me, but I thought you had to declare war before you call someone or something a “legitimate military target”? Maybe he means that when the editors will eventually be “targeted”, whatever that means, that act in itself will be the declaration of war?

*****

Doh!

Well actually, now I get it, I must be a bit slow. Russia is not at war at all, they are just conducting a “Special Military Operation”, and you do not need to declare a war for something insignificant like that.

He obviously means “Legitimate Military Targets in a Special Military Operation”, now that is a totally different thing, isn’t it?