[quote="kvs"]
Regular wrote:What is the waste is Russian war effort. Forgive me, but it makes little sense not to use overwhelming force. It will be interesting to see the end game both politically and military. I started to hate political talk on both sides so I am not even willing to speculate what will happen next.
What is your timeline metric? Overwhelming force doing what? Bombing cities?
Destroying Ukrainian airfields, not hitting them ad hoc one by one (We seen L-39 targeted, MiG-29 still flying about)
Destroying civilian infrastructure, all bridges and roads in the west of Ukraine.
Destroying communication centres and bringing country offline.
Destroying water supply and heating centres in the capital.
Destroying military formations of any size and not letting them move about, it's on CCTV Livestreams, not that VSU is hiding.
Destroying government buildings and eliminating Rada members.
Bombing cities would be just a cherry on top, not that the world or Ukrainians will give a crap if it's 1 civilian or 1000 civilians dead, whole outrage is just that, an outrage.
This has to be a measured operation if civilians are not to be substantially affected.
Have you met Ukrainian civilians? What gives them such luxury? Did LNR/DNR civilians have the same luxury?
The Banderite vermin will not be able to occupy Ukrainian cities
Ukrainians occupy Ukrainian cities and they are hungry for war.
like the jihadis did Grozny.
Russians decisively flattened Grozny for a reason. Kiev gets other treatment, but why? Because they are white and they pretend to be Russian "brothers"?
Any games and half measures will lead to nowhere, you will mark my words.
Never I have seen a military campaign to be ended by pussyfooting, Russia can't get stuck there for 50 years.