[It’s a viable strategy for a losing nation to refuse to surrender a city.
It’s imperative to know the extent of death and destruction the enemy is capable of, and willing to execute.
Mariupol will be sacrificed for this knowledge.
Resolution of all future sieges in this war depend on what happens here. It will be the model for both sides.
And it’s going to be effin’ ugly. WWII kinda ugly.]
“Or it could become a Stalingrad, where the invading force ends up getting smashed.”
Now THAT was a brutal fight.