“Sorry, but you don’t win a war by blowing up power plants. You have to defeat the enemy army in order to claim victory.”
That’s not correct. It is exactly how you win a war. The destruction of enemy power plants, fuel storage, refineries, communications centers, and infrastructure (bridges & railroad depots) will cripple the best of armies.
“That’s not correct. It is exactly how you win a war. The destruction of enemy power plants, fuel storage, refineries, communications centers, and infrastructure”
Have you paid attention to any of the wars we have fought for the last 40 years? We believed doing all of the above would get us victory in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.
A motivated army is willing to fight in the dark and on foot.
“The destruction of enemy power plants, fuel storage, refineries, communications centers, and infrastructure (bridges & railroad depots) will cripple the best of armies.”
Not really. We blew those things up basically weekly in WW2 and the Germans just rebuilt them every time. As long as the resources are there to rebuild (and Ukraine will get whatever resources they need as long as Russia continues to be foolish enough to threaten the West), you aren’t winning the war by doing that.
Theses strikes are killing a relatively small number of civilians, and temporarily inconveniencing the rest. That's it, and there's no way that will win a war.
will cripple the best of armies
Not only the armies. The populace as well. When Ukrainians have no power, they have no heat, can’t cook, can’t do anything. Eventually their military, having been propped up by the US and NATO, since Day 1, will soon feel those effects.
And then, as winter sets in across Europe, what will NATO do then? Look at France. No gas. Cops pushing their cop cars down the road, folks fighting over gas at gas stations.
Pretty soon, Ukraine and Zelensky will be on their own.