What if Russians bombed your power plants?

Would you want the rest of the world to stop them from doing that?

Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal, said today that Russia has been attacking and bombing our energy infrastructure for the last two weeks. Last year, the world did very little to deter Russia from bombing our power plants, leaving us without light for most of the winter. I personally don’t remember any sanctions imposed on Russia for such actions. The attack on civilian life was verbally disapproved by some leaders of the civilised world but left actionably unpunished.

What’s the result?

Russia is attacking our plants again, hoping to leave us without light and heat for one more winter season. Have you read any news about the universal outrage and demands to put in place proper sanctions to stop Russia from doing that? I haven’t. I don’t think I will.

Russia continues to terrorise civilian life in Ukraine, and the world is afraid to do the very least it could do — to name Russia a terrorist state and deal with it the same way it does with terrorists. Punish, punish and punish for every atrocity, not just for an ambiguous, uncounted collection of wrongs as it did at the start of the war.