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“We will bomb the enemy into submission” has been tried in the UK, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Vietnam and has never really worked. The civilian populatio
by gerikson 3y ago
“We will bomb the enemy into submission” has been tried in the UK, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Vietnam and has never really worked. The civilian population does not blame its leaders, it blames the enemy. And nightly reports of destroyed apartment blocks and murdered women and children is terrible optics for Russia.
- xpl 3y agoYou could argue that it didn't work with North Korea as well (as the regime is still there). But in fact the whole country had been bombed to such condition that it simply had no buildings left, it had been totally flattened, ~300k civilians dead. Could happen with Ukraine as well if they couldn't eventually counter the Russian air force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea And Putin would be totally happy with the destruction of Ukraine if they don't submit. Either outcome is good for him.