re: Russian tanks tried to hide in the woods, but oops..

I think the excessive destruction of Mariupol was designed to demonstrate what could happen to other such places should Russia choose to do so. And that aspect of the overall game plan was surely in place before they started running into obstacles and pushback that they didn’t expect. Because I can only assume to achieve the level of destruction in that city, it required a substantial massing of Russian artillery and such to basically have unfettered target practice on a live target, a pretty huge one.

But now perhaps they cannot amass that same combination required to just have an artillery and bombing free for all. Thus their Mariupol destruction threat has gone flaccid.

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You know, you at least have to respect the tankers, on all sides, in the first two World Wars. Really any before the dawn of this style of war. At least those did battle on roughly equal terms.

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The more we remove all the humanity from it, the more we make it calculations and pushing a button and bang, boom, boys don’t sit at the table at Christmas…

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Far fewer people die in modern war, so that means far more soldiers will be sitting at a table at Christmas than were after wars prior to WWII.

Those tanks were sent into a foreign country to kill, destroy and conquer. Their destruction prevented that from happening.

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The officer corps has been fully indoctrinated.

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Many of those officers in the high command who owe their positions to Democratic administrations might be fully indoctrinated. However, the officer corps of the U.S. military is more libertarian than anything and the vast majority of our best officers do not hold with the cultural Marxism you see being espoused from our leading generals/admirals.