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Putin was holding back the entire time
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the only rational explanation for his restraint was that he wanted to minimize civilian casualties and damage to critical infrastructure
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this desire to minimize collateral damage makes Putin a better man than all of the Western commanders who indiscriminately carpet bombed their enemies in virtually every major conflict since WW2
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at this point, if Western media are speaking, they’re lying
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everyone on this board who thought the Ukraine was winning this war, or that Russia was somehow outmatched, is a fucking retard
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People who disagree with you are not "retarded". Even some pro-Russia commentators believe that this current intensification of the offensive is only temporary - to warn the non-country off from engaging in future terrorist acts like the attack on the Crimea bridge.
I didn’t say everyone who disagrees with me is retarded. That’s an absurd straw man. I laid out a limited collection of ideas that constitute retardation in this context, and I then strongly implied that several people here promoted those ideas.
Among the people who were proven to be idiots by recent events, I fully expected most to dissemble and claim that they did not, in fact, hold any of their previously documented opinions. I was not disappointed.
Limited or not, it came down to people viewing things differently from you being retarded. Now, I mostly agree with you here, but the folks who don't are not 'retarded'. They just have different assumptions (mostly) and biases.
Only time will tell. It may be that they intensified for a day and that there'll be nothing for 3 months.
People here? Who?