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You need to let the rest of the world know....they appear to differ with you;Putin hasn't carpet bombed anyone. Wax hyperbolic much?
Putin hasn't carpet bombed anyone. Wax hyperbolic much?
Putin hasn't carpet bombed anyone. Wax hyperbolic much?
You put it in large caps and bold with an expectation that we will believe you?You need to let the rest of the world know....they appear to differ with you;
"Putin carpet-bombs Kharkiv killing nine and injuring 37 as he sends 3-mile convoy towards Kyiv despite peace talks"
"Putin Resorts to Carpet-Bombing Ukrainian Civilians"
I suspected the OP did not know the definition of the term "carpet bombing". But I suspect his point is still the same in its essence. Will Putin's widespread butchery of citizens by several means "work" might have been a more well tailored question.You put it in large caps and bold with an expectation that we will believe you?
Carpet bombing...Carpet bombing, also known as saturation bombing, is a large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land. The phrase evokes the image of explosions completely covering an area, in the same way that a carpet covers a floor.
I suspected the OP did not know the definition of the term "carpet bombing". But I suspect his point is still the same in its essence. Will Putin's widespread butchery of citizens by several means "work" might have been a more well tailored question.
It will work for putin, but not for Russia. He'll join stalin, hitler and pol pot as top level government killers.I suspected the OP did not know the definition of the term "carpet bombing". But I suspect his point is still the same in its essence. Will Putin's widespread butchery of citizens by several means "work" might have been a more well tailored question.
If Mariupol does not meet the definition, what does? there is essentially little left of the city. Google some pictures if you do not believe.I suspected the OP did not know the definition of the term "carpet bombing". But I suspect his point is still the same in its essence. Will Putin's widespread butchery of citizens by several means "work" might have been a more well tailored question.
They bombed, missile struck and artillery salvoed the crap put of it for sure. The technique used simply does not meet the definition of carpet bombing......just doesn't.If Mariupol does not meet the definition, what does? there is essentially little left of the city. Google some pictures if you do not believe.
They bombed, missile struck and artillery salvoed the crap put of it for sure. The technique used simply does not meet the definition of carpet bombing......just doesn't.
Not even sure the Russians could carpet bomb in 2022 even if they wanted to do so.
I suspect Putin and Russia will tolerate an immense amount of economic pain to avoid the worse pain of losing a war to a weaker foe.Can it work? For a country the size of Ukraine, it requires an awful lot of damn brutality, but can carpet bombing and demolishing cities end up achieving military aims? Yes. They can. It's a question of how much economic and political pain Russia can tolerate, and I suppose it also depends on how much longer Western countries are willing to just sit by and let Ukraine get mauled.
The dead Ukrainians say otherwise.Putin hasn't carpet bombed anyone. Wax hyperbolic much?
The dead Ukranians aren't saying anything because, sadly, they're dead. You need to look up the meaning of carpet bombing. Good examples are Dresden and Tokyo in WWII.The dead Ukrainians say otherwise.
It's a toss up. It worked for us in WWII, but not some much in Viet Nam.The German's first carpet bombed civilians in London, then we carpet bombed German and Japan in WWII and it did not end the war. It took boots on the ground in Europe and the nuclear bombs in Japan to do the job. Now we have Putin doing the same thing in Ukraine and it again is not working. I wonder if this kind of tactic in war is to punish rather than to end the war. This seems especially true it Ukraine where the tactic is not new and the possible outcome unknown as it was in WWII, where it was thought a way to end the war more quickly and with less loss of American and its allies lives. Putin seems to thrive on this kind of tactic to punish those who do not give in to his demands.
I suspect Putin and Russia will tolerate an immense amount of economic pain to avoid the worse pain of losing a war to a weaker foe.
It's a toss up. It worked for us in WWII, but not some much in Viet Nam.
They also have a ways to go before they reach anything resembling real carpet bombing. Go look at video of an Arclight strike.We were more committed to 'total war' in Germany, and the entire nation of Germany was an adversary, which was different in Vietnam.
From Russia's point of view, most of Ukraine is an adversary. They can claim that the Donbas is allied with Russia but I don't see Russia going out of their way to spare the Donbas regions from harm, and ethnic Russians are, like Russian soldiers, expendable and collateral damage. It is looking more and more like Russia's end game may be to completely annihilate Ukraine - or at least parts of it - and remake it in Russia's image. I could totally see mass deportations of Ukrainians to labor/death camps in Siberia, and in return, Russia rebuilds its economy by colonizing the parts of Ukraine under its control with the construction of settlements, similar to how the Israelis treat Palestine.
Russia probably can't afford to carpet bomb, but they can make cities nearly uninhabitable.They also have a ways to go before they reach anything resembling real carpet bombing. Go look at video of an Arclight strike.
They would not have enough trying to perform carpet bombing missions. The "big bomber" is a very fragile, easy to hit and take out target these days. Even the US only uses its strategic bombers to fly conventional bomber missions in combat where they are assured that the enemy has no means at all to reach them. True carpet bombing would expose those bombers unnecessarily. Far better to stand off with them and have them launch missiles and the like.They absolutely could. They have enough strategic bombers.
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