• intrepid@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    The war just started. How do you even know what tricks they have up their sleeves? You think dropping big explosives from the air is the only form of warfare? How did that work out for you in Vietnam? This is the same hubris Putin demonstrated. Don’t jump the gun.

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      3 hours ago

      You think dropping big explosives from the air is the only form of warfare? How did that work out for you in Vietnam?

      Killed a whole lot of people

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        2 hours ago

        Yeah. Killing little school girls is all you can claim as an achievement! After all, little school girls are the field of expertise of your supreme commander, aren’t they?

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          1 hour ago

          We killed a whole lot of school girls in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq as well. Didn’t get the same kind of coverage, because the executive branch (and the public) were more disciplined in messaging.

          But I think a lot of warfare is, at the end of the day, a libidinal need to “mow the grass” as the genocidal IDF leadership put it. Kill your enemies. Kill their families. Kill their kids. Depopulate territory of opposition.

          Do I think dropping big explosives from the air works toward that end? Absolutely.