stating that the ends justify the means isn’t advocating for the killing of civilians (even if I wouldn’t personally use that phrase); I don’t know what the post was referring to, but if it was about the war in Ukraine, my guess would be that it was acknowledging that civilian deaths (on one side or the other) are unavoidable and that the alternative – e.g. doing nothing to stop the slaughter of civilians in the Donbas and ignoring the threat of a US proxy on its border – would be worse