Appreciate your perspective on this, but I think there are other dimensions to Russian strikes against Kiev civilians that should be considered:
- Forcing the UAF to devote missile defense to the capital instead of operational forces
- A “warning” of sorts to the west – “this is the way we fight, if you join the conflict directly expect the same treatment”. This is part of the political dimension which you covered.
- I think the strikes on apt buildings and power plants also demonstrates a severe lack of good ISR for the Russians. Perhaps they cannot find good military targets, and so they resort to google maps?
Part of the difficulty in contrasting Ukraine with Russia is the arsenals they inherited from the Soviet Union. If Ukraine had retained substantial strategic bombing capability, it's hard to say how they might have employed it.
Appreciate your perspective on this, but I think there are other dimensions to Russian strikes against Kiev civilians that should be considered:
- Forcing the UAF to devote missile defense to the capital instead of operational forces
- A “warning” of sorts to the west – “this is the way we fight, if you join the conflict directly expect the same treatment”. This is part of the political dimension which you covered.
- I think the strikes on apt buildings and power plants also demonstrates a severe lack of good ISR for the Russians. Perhaps they cannot find good military targets, and so they resort to google maps?
Part of the difficulty in contrasting Ukraine with Russia is the arsenals they inherited from the Soviet Union. If Ukraine had retained substantial strategic bombing capability, it's hard to say how they might have employed it.