“You realize Russia could have conducted a “shock and awe” bombing campaign “
The only “shock and awe” Russia has been doing is in the form of deomnstrating how pathetic their military is. Four months and still havent beaten the undergunned and undermanned Ukes.
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/15/ukraine-1000-casualties-day-donbas-arakhamia
Up to 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers are being killed or wounded each day in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, with 200 to 500 killed on average and many more wounded, a top Ukrainian official said on Wednesday.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Russian-MoD-50-Ukrainian-Officers-Killed-in-Long-Range-Strike-20220619-0023.html
The Russian Defense Ministry announced, on Sunday, that more than 50 Ukrainian generals and officers were killed in a strike on a command center in the Ukrainian Dnipropetrovsk region.