“I’m surprised Russia is just getting around to this in the last month or so.”
This is a clear distinction in tactics and strategy. The world does not want a carbon copy of the US and it’s “shock and awe” carpet bombing campaigns which it has successfully conducted on countries without the ability to fight back.
This is true, but the Ukraine can’t stop Russia from hitting the infrastructure now and it sure couldn’t have in March either. ‘Winning the peace’ is hard enough, especially against irregulars/insurgents, but with our ROEs it’s virtually impossible. But it dawned on me in ‘04 that winning wasn’t the goal, just protracted war for MIC enrichment.
Total war is how wars are won, unfortunately. America is a case study in the failure of ‘sanitized combat’. War should always be the last resort.
“It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it.” - Robert E. Lee.