Forbes: Secure humanitarian corridors for 2nd Berlin Airlift over Ukraine

[ColinC]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/craighooper/2022/03/05/establish-humanitarian-air-corridors-for-a-2nd-berlin-airlift-over-ukraine/amp/

As Moscow thrashes about in Ukraine, unable to unwind an increasingly disastrous invasion, the situation is bleak for Ukraine’s non-combatant civilian population. Ceasefires on the ground to allow civilian passage out of Mariupol and Volnovakha have collapsed. With nothing on the horizon to relieve the situation, one humanitarian option is to establish a set of secure life-saving air corridors within Ukraine.

Time is of the essence. Within days, the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine will be intolerable.

In Europe, secure air corridors have been used for humanitarian purposes before. The United States, Britain and France employed humanitarian air corridors in 1948 and 1949, after the Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. The Berlin Airlift used three contested air corridors to resupply the besieged German city.

[Wingus Dingus]

1. I feel like this is possible. It doesn't have to be NATO.

It can be a non-affiliated country.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. Russian military doctrine calls for instilling terror and hopelessness in civilian populations

Bomb the schools, blow up the hospitals. Destroy cultural landmarks. Bodies of children and elderly.
For what purpose? My guess, to demoralize their enemy...like showering a besieged city with the severed heads of it's defenders. Their policy is to maximize a dismaying and demoralizing effect.

It might work though, if we went in with a whole lot of muscle and reminding Pootler that we have battlefield nukes also.