Anastasia Pechenyuk09:15, 06/04/23
Attacks on civilians instead of military targets can be costly for Russia.
The wave of missile attacks on Kyiv, which are not beneficial for advancing the Russians to the front, show that the Russian dictator has been overcome by emotions, according to military analyst Sean Bell.
In an article for Sky News , he noted that Putin likely targeted his limited stockpile of missiles at the civilian population of Kyiv in response to alleged drone attacks on Moscow.
“Putin has no military training, so strategy, doctrine and main effort are not phrases that are close to him. Instead, he is driven by symbolism: Bakhmut had limited military significance, but Putin wanted to successfully celebrate May 1st. Ditto he wants to punish President Volodymyr Zelenskyi for his audacity with retaliatory strikes, but, like Hitler and the Battle of Britain, Putin allows emotions to win over military strategy,” the analyst believes.
Sean Bell points out that Russia is using up ballistic missiles faster than they can be replaced, and spending them on civilian targets instead of military targets could be costly for it.
“The waves of missile attacks on Kyiv do no military good and do nothing to end Russia’s war; they are simply the actions of a frustrated leader seeking to vent his anger at his persistent adversary. This lack of ruthless focus on military objectives is a critical weakness in the Russian military machine that we can expect in the coming months,” the analyst predicts.
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Perhaps he thinks that if he got lucky enough, one of his missiles would manage to kill Zelensky and those of his staff vital to the Rada. Or maybe that all the attacks will terrorize the civilians enough that some large group of them will insist on a surrender just to stop the killings. If so, then putin doesn’t realize that even to the casual observer, with every attack, it makes angry Ukrainians more determined to fight back.
This seems to me like a similar sentiment that Americans had, just after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and what the United States into WWII. Before, the average American didn’t want our troops and resources to be sent overseas to a situation that didn’t seem to affect us. “Hitler’s messing around with Poland? That’s sad, but why would it concern me?”
Then the Japanese surprise attack on a peacefully quiet naval port, killing thousands of sailors, injuring or maiming more, including civilians, and the outrage became a hardened desire for vengeance. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said, “I fear all we have done, is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” He was right. The next day, America declared itself officially at war, which eventually ended hitler’s insanity AND dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.
Although he had no capability for a devastating surprise attack, Ukraine wasn’t at war with putin, and may have even been willing to let him keep the Crimea, even russia simply left Ukraine alone. But now every attack simply reminds Ukrainians of why putin needs to be shot, preferably with so many bullets that the remains of the body would be “shitting” lead.
That little nearly empty space of his head where putin’s few brain cells rub together? That’s the sound of him saying “duh, let’s try another missile! They’ll give up this time!”
When putin attacked Ukraine for no justifiable reason, he brought the war to your doorstep, and so deserves all the fury that Ukrainians can throw at him. Putin has woken a Ukrainian giant and filled him with anger against the kremlin.