Russia and Ukraine

[WinterHold]

^This. It's not uncommon - especially when you think you have military resources and to spare - to pick a soft, relatively unimportant target, hammer it mercilessly, then tout it as a victory. One of Putin's problems is that Ukrainians stubbornly refuse to take part in that scenario.

Boru

But both parties (the West & Russia) are famous for playing this pathetic game.

-The west:

1-America's invasion of Iraq
2-The NATO's invasion of Afghanistan

-Russia:

1-civil war in Syria

In reality -and I clearly say it as an Arab-, we think that both parties have nothing advanced but airforce + WMDs.

So the pathetic game is the motto of superpowers since WW2: airforce demolishing weak, hungry, deprived infantry.
It's like medieval knights in full armor VS naked peasants.

Both parties (the west and Russia) are experts in this game, but this time it's medieval knights in full armor VS medieval knights in full armor. And I bet it will end with a nuke.