“Because it’s their home.”
Spare us the assinine rhetoric.
This is a war/conflict so drop your brain to the level of thinking strategically and tactically instead of just vomiting rhetoric, yeah?
If you can’t do that, go back to playing RISK.....
well you’re a Russian shill, so of course you have no respect for other countries
“If you can’t do that, go back to playing RISK...”
The closest YOU ever got to anything even remotely military was playing RISK. You have some chutzpah, kid.
I think that is a adequate reason to defend and value territory.
As others have pointed out, it’s also a meat grinder for the Russian Army. The battle for Stalingrad was so bitterly fought at least in part because if its symbolic value. The crossing of the Rhine in 1945 was a symbolic and propaganda set back for the Nazis. It’s hard to pretend that you are winning the enemy is on your soil.
People will fight to defend their homes, and their home country. Wars are won by tactics and strategy, but symbolism and morale cannot be discounted.