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These attacks need to be on Moscow or they will go unnoticed
Edit: only military targets in and around Moscow
Valid military targets only lest Ukraine stoops to the level of the invaders. Moscow is very densely populated, so it’s not worth the risk when there are so many other high-value, valid strategic targets elsewhere.
Oh, I thought winning the war was more important than continuing the attrition
Plenty of air defenses surrounding Moscow, force Russian aircraft to patrol the skies around Moscow instead of dropping bombs on Ukraine
Bringing the war home to Muscovites is worth more than refineries
It's fine, GW didn't listen to his intel analysts either
If you were an "intel analyst", you'd know that Ukraine's Western support would cease the second they're starting to attack non-military targets, especially in Moscow.
If you could read, you would see that I am suggesting military targets in Moscow
Moscow is harder to hit because it is likely defended. Go for just as valuable targets that are less defended
It's a waste of ammo. The movers and shakers in Moscow driving this war won't even care
They only care when it affects them personally
Ukraine could nuke half of Russia and those movers and shakers would still pretend nothing's wrong.
They've surrounded themselves with people that only tell them what they want to hear
Kind of hard to deny constant explosions going off in full view even if some of them are being intercepted
Yet, they absolutely would deny them.
Those explosions are definitely just a meteor shower and aurora borealis
They may not care but without oil their war halts anyway.
Unlike Russia, Ukraine’s military knows how to fight a war: defeat your enemy’s physical capability to continue the fight.
Russia has wasted so many reassures attacking civilians in Ukraine thinking it will shatter their resolve when it has only strengthened it. This sort of “strategic” terror bombing was proven not to work all the way back in World War 2 for the exact same reason it’s not working against Ukraine: killing civilians makes the survivors angry and determined to win.
Exactly.
To put it more succinctly, "disable the enemy." That's also the point in any military engagements. Not killing. Disabling them, as in "removing their ability to fight".
Lindybeige - The most effective weapon of World War Two
I am not advocating attacks on civilians, not only is it immoral it is a waste of ammunition that does nothing to advance strategic goals.
The movers and shakers driving this war have sat out long enough.
Bring the war home for them. Start hitting military targets in and around Moscow. Specifically, air defenses and others that will cause Moscow to pull resources from Ukraine to defend Moscow
Their yes men will not be able to deny a constant barrage of explosions around them and Putin will have to placate them by reassuring them with visible military resources