Russia attacks Ukraine - Open thread | 209 comments (209 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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You don't take a city with planes and tanks.

You take a city block by block. With foot soldiers.
Even Molotov cocktails are useful. But eighteen thousand machine guns are better.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Sat Feb 26th, 2022 at 07:51:51 PM EST
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Useful for what? Like what is the endgame here? If you're arming the population in your capital you really should be seeking terms, whatever those are. Because the way cities defended by irregulars have been taken recently has been by bombing the rubble and then bombing it again.

by generic on Sat Feb 26th, 2022 at 08:49:36 PM EST
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Well, so far, the Ukranian government has been announcing civilian death tolls in the low hundreds. This would indicate that the Russian army is under instructions to minimise that. So they are not going Syrian on Kiev.

Despite the occasional cruise missile taking a random chunk out of an apartment building (or perhaps that was pinpoint accuracy on a particular apartment?)

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Sun Feb 27th, 2022 at 09:18:22 AM EST
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Russia attacks Ukraine - Open thread | 209 comments (209 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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