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(5,969 posts)I don't think I expected to see that in the 21th century.
Whatever happens, I hope the sanctions won't get lifted until an independent Ukraine is fully rebuilt.
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)He ordered a brutal invasion. Yeah, he is a bad guy. He isn't directing tactical artillery, though.
Russian military incompetence is the Occam's razor answer to the incident at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)on whether or not to shell nuclear plants.
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)I am under the impression a lot of info is not shared, and I suspect there isn't a lot of rational thinking going on with the troops in the field.
Martin68
(22,822 posts)58Sunliner
(4,386 posts)"During military operations, field artillery has the role of providing support to other arms in combat or of attacking targets'"
yaesu
(8,020 posts)British prime minister Boris Johnson has spoken with Ukrainian President Zelenskiy after news broke about a fire at the nuclear power station in Zaporizhzhia, calling Putins reckless actions a danger to the safety of Europe.
Martin68
(22,822 posts)TomSlick
(11,100 posts)I have been wondering from the beginning how Putin thinks he can occupy Ukraine. Russia simply cannot occupy Ukraine for the long term. Surely, the attempt by the USSR at occupying Afghanistan in the 1980s is fresh enough in the Russian memory that Putin appreciates that an occupation of Ukraine would be costly, in blood and treasure, and ultimately fail.
The only logical conclusion is that Putin has never intended to occupy Ukraine. I believe his plan has always been to destroy Ukraine as a country and withdraw. Putin assumes that a devastated Ukraine will repent of its experiment with democracy and beg to be readmitted to the Russian empire.
halfulglas
(1,654 posts)He doesn't love Ukraine, but he would rather destroy it than let it make its own decisions and be independent, especially not let it join with others and be successful or be powerful in its own right.
soldierant
(6,890 posts)panfluteman
(2,065 posts)It seems like if Putin can't take the country and make it surrender easily, he's going to destroy it, then. That could have been done just by carpet bombing Ukraine from outside the country, without a single Russian soldier setting foot in the country.
Warpy
(111,277 posts)He doesn't seem to care that all he'll win are rubble, ashes, and a population that hates his guts and anyone who wears his uniform along with him. Long term, they'll bleed Russia dry.
That idiot Lukashenko has telegraphed his intentions, so Moldova and Georgia have just applied for entry into the EU. They're next.