Russians don't worry so much about collateral damage. They just blow shit up and kill people.
Russians don’t worry so much about collateral damage. They just blow shit up and kill people.
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Russia still has a WWII mindset regarding warfare. In that war there was no great effort made to minimize civilian casualties. From both sides’ point of view it was a war to win at any cost. Maximizing civilian deaths is very demoralizing to an adversary, and many times it was done intentionally to put the most pressure possible on the enemy’s government. The Germans bombing London and other British cities, the allies bombing Dresden and other cities with minimal military interest, and the most demoralizing of all the US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those last two were destroyed PURELY for the terror effect on the enemy’s government and civilian population.
The Russians fight to win, and when they find they can’t win they don’t hesitate to bug out and cut their losses (Afghanistan). Also, they are not hampered by nonsensical “rules of engagement” that are designed for defeat. Unlike the US, Russia has the backing and moral support of the vast majority of it populace, and for all these reasons it would be a very grave mistake for some idiot like Obama or Hillary to think they could win a “limited” or conventional war with Russia. The two countries play by very different rules.