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Ukraine is a large country. Even Iraqi Baghdad took a month to fall to a massively superior US force all those years ago. This will be a protracted and bloody
by engineer_22 5y ago
Ukraine is a large country.
Even Iraqi Baghdad took a month to fall to a massively superior US force all those years ago.
This will be a protracted and bloody afair and with modern social media we'll get to see every gruesome moment.
- qqtt 5y agoIraq invasion started on March 19 and Baghdad was formally occupied on April 9. If you look at the timeline, they were fighting over the airports close to the city just days before the city was occupied. Russia looks already to be encircling Kyiv and making attempts to gain control of the analogous airports.
- tguvot 5y agoRussia might be looking into doing it, but they don't have enough fuel to do it so far (hence a bunch of neglected machinery that run out of fuel) . Railroads to russia were blown in last few days and there is a lot of pissed of people hunting down fuel tracks. Also Kyiv is kinda big city. Encircling and occupying it's two very different things
- optimalsolver 5y agoThe fall of Baghdad was just the beginning of the Iraq War.
- nkrisc 5y agoWhich everyone seemed to think signaled the impending end of the war, as I recall.
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