(October 12, 2022 at 4:28 am)Belacqua Wrote: Bizarre headline from the New York Times World today:
Quote:The Russian missile attacks that killed at least 19 people across Ukraine on Monday were wide-ranging, but they were not as deadly as they could have been. That has renewed questions over the quality of Russia’s weapons.
Not killing as many people as possible is seen as bad. If your weapons are really top quality, you're just going to kill as many as you can.
Restraint is weakness. The New York Times only respects violence.
In the last few days, Russia has fired three quarters of a billion dollars worth of cruise missiles at (largely) undefended civilian targets. Independent sources agree that Ukraine shot down about 60% of those missiles.
So, Russia hardly seems to be practicing ‘restraint’ - they clearly wanted to kill as many people as possible and were unable to do so. How long can they afford to spend 40 million dollars per Ukrainian killed?
Russia is seen as weak because it IS weak.
Boru
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