Fallujah should have been a parking lot the first time, the rubble should be bouncing again.
“Fallujah should have been a parking lot the first time, the rubble should be bouncing again.”
From the looks of some of the clips online, more physical damage seems to have been done this time around (they are likely showing some of the worst though).
They were popping heavy artillery into the city for several months prior to the ground assault, and it has been a virtual free fire zone this month.
I expect the Shia militias to continue destroying buildings for some time after the fighting stops, “clearing mines and IEDs”. They were reported to have done that in Tikrit and Baji, but Fallujah is the motherload for them to get back for Sunni atrocities. 80% of the car bombs striking Baghdad were from Fallujah.