“They could not have picked a sticker spot to dip their toe.”
They don’t have any qualms about razing the entire area. No winning hearts and minds bullshit.
*** They don’t have any qualms about razing the entire area. No winning hearts and minds bullshit. ***
Winning hearts and minds? Have you seen Raqqa?
Indeed. In fact Assad and Russia killed about 3 times more civilians than IsIS and still counting, as a means to increase waves of migrants to Turkey/Europe
Actually, China has not done much razing of anything outside of their borders, since their one month conflict with the Vietnamese in the 1970's.
They are real tough against their unarmed citizens though.
Maybe you are thinking of the Russians.
Grozny, Chechnya:
