Hi! Let's speak civilly. Neither of us are daft. A Ukrainian drone that strikes a Russian target may or may not be pursuing a legitimate aim. We have to know what the target, and then make judgments. 1/

"Blowback" that takes the form of murdering a random civilian is never legitimate. Neither is military action against a random civilian. Both are unfortunately common. 2/

However, "blowback" may take the form of attacking in some fashion prominent institutions, members of a military, etc. 3/

That the "resistance" (a word I dislike because it is often too exonerative) is not an organized state military does not necessarily render the action less defensible or moral than if it were. 4/

In either case, the action may be by ordinary human standards really fucking immoral. But if you sometimes exonerate one, you must either sometimes exonerate the other, or else adopt a standard that organization by a modern state somehow alters the character of goal-directed immoral action. /fin