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2022-12-12 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russia's attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure - does strategic bombing ever work? - Perun

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Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 It worked well against the Germans in WW11 and at times by us in our many wars. Only in Western media do you see this presented. The slaughter continues while the west continues their collective decline. Ukraine had a powerful well trained military(8 year build up also). I say had, as with Germany the Germans lost 68,000 experienced soldiers.The same has happened to Ukrainians. The west continues to shoot their own feet. New powerful alignments are occurring and not for the west. Biden will drag this out for every penny of our money.

Posted by Dale 2022-12-12 03:51|| 2022-12-12 03:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Dale your comments early in the war that it would be over soon with a quick Russian victory and each subsequent turn in the war you have revealed your Russian bias, I do not place any confidence in you objective analysis of the crisis.

Posted by Chinesing Protector of the Weak6914 2022-12-12 09:58|| 2022-12-12 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Doesn't it all depends on what you mean by 'Strategic Bombing'? My father had a copy of Alexander de Seversky's Victory Through Air Power(1942) that I read as a kid. Later (much later) I read John Ray Skates' The Invasion of Japan(1994) and Robert A. Pape's Bombing To Win:Air Power and Coercion in War(1996).

The problem with strategic bombing is that the defender starts thinking "*Yawn* So now what are you going to do that's worse than what we can already survive...? Kill entire cities with 'Go Full Mongol' ghoulishness?"

Posted by magpie 2022-12-12 11:51|| 2022-12-12 11:51|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 I deal with reality. We have been feed a constant diet of propaganda. I am glad to see India develop into a powerhouse. So now as each day passes the coverup will be fully exposed. We will soon see. Certainly the war is over. You have NATO and troops from many countries working in place of Ukrainians. Send me money send me equipment the beggar begs on and on.

Posted by Dale 2022-12-12 12:51|| 2022-12-12 12:51|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ There once was a suave Hilter-smoocher,
A globalist, socialist moocher
Who begged for our stuff
When the going got rough;
Whom the press gave a pass
As they praised him en masse!
Propaganda? You bet!
And we bought it... and yet...
When he looked in the mirror
He muttered, "Oh, dear...
I'm that cute little Jooo in the future!"

Posted by Menhadden Ulumble3061 2022-12-12 18:44|| 2022-12-12 18:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Ha ha ha ho ho ho

Posted by Dron66046 2022-12-12 21:58|| 2022-12-12 21:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Does it work?
Ask those remaining few that caught it.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-12 22:53|| 2022-12-12 22:53|| Front Page Top

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