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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
SO at some point we have to wonder, if Putin can't get it done in the traditional sense of military on military, does he just start hitting the cities with heavier and heavier bombs, casualties be damned?
I mean the sanctions can't really get worse can they? And the west has already shown they will absolutely not engage in an actual fight. So what does he have to lose at this point besides more men?
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The Russians have 2 problems, Ukrainian air defenses just got immeasurably better in the last 2 days, the stingers have made it into action, so they have to choose to fly higher, over 10,000 feet which does 2 things, it leaves them no ability to precision bomb any more, they have to carpet bomb, bad for civilians but great for the Ukraine army, this leaves them complete ability to operate, it take helicopters out of the fight all but completely, or stay low and get shot to peices.
Putin's problem is having sold this as a special operation to liberate the Ukraine how the hell do you explain leveling the country and killing hndreds of thousands, he can get away with it for a while but Russia isn't N Korea, they will slowely get real reports in on what is happening and most Russians see Ukrainians as family, they dont hate them, they dont want them dead, Putin really cant go full Grozny on them.