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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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This is literally you suggesting that Putin is being more humane than most western powers have been in major military conflicts over the last 70+ years. You’ve just worded it differently. Whether he’s doing it out of cynical strategy or not is irrelevant because we cannot know that one way or the other. All that matters is that the outcome was, in fact, more humane.
Worth noting: the people who were most confused by Putin’s restraint were the same people who advocated immediate and unrepentant carpet bombing (aka shock and awe) in our own military conflicts. This tells you more about those people than it does Putin.
Effectively, perhaps. By design, no. Powers are humane or not based on whether there is any benefit to be had by pretending to be so.
He's a politician. We can know that it's a cynical strategy.
If this was restraint, then I think they mistook his restraint for weakness.