There's being arrogant and there's being stupid. Surely, the Russian high command is smarter than a "Reddit moderator", since you assured me that I am very stupid for being one (in the past)?

You have more sense than Putin and the Russian High Command because you don't live in the bubble of incompetent yes-men that Putin cultivated around himself. You're expressing disbelief, but you don't have an alternative explanation.

But then the 'arrogance' card does not make sense. You would bomb barracks full of soldiers if you wanted such a systemic collapse.

It does, but the Russians were also incompetent. The Russians were betting that the Ukrainians would lack the will to fight. But you're correct that clear military targets were totally ignored or Russia otherwise failed to attack them. I would again point to the Ukrainian air force, which totally escaped destruction early on even though Russia had the element of surprise and should have blasted every air base in Ukraine to rubble in the opening hours. It didn't happen. So then Ukraine dispersed its aircraft and hide them away so that when Russia did belatedly shoot cruise missiles at some air bases, they didn't hit any aircraft. By contrast, Ukraine successfully caught Russians stacking up planes in their forward air bases within artillery range more than once, and blew up a couple dozen of them.

There is no explanation for this that makes sense other than a mixture of arrogance and incompetence.

Alright, so every single bridge in Little Russia is now fair game.

Oh? Did the FSB contractors get a memo to call Ukraine "little russia" now? lol. Well, they have ALWAYS been fair game. Just look at the Pidyomnyy/Zatoka Bridge south of Odessa, far from the fighting just like Kerch. Russia kept throwing cruise missiles at it for months, and finally succeeded in closing it in June/July afaik but I don't have any recent sources on it.

So if Russia can do it, so can Ukraine. Russia cries when Kerch gets blown up, but it had just done the same thing to Zatoka and bragged about it in state media.

Russia is like a bully who is beating up on some smaller kid, and then the kid lands a good punch and Russia gets a bloody nose, then Russia gets REALLY MAD because the bullied kid was supposed to just lie down and take it and not fight back. It's all so pathetic.

That would be awful. That might slightly damage the suspension!

HIMARS closed the Antonivka bridge a while back and it has never been re-opened. Russia has been relying on a ferry for a while now. Not really sure why you keep pretending that HIMARS only makes "potholes" because of one pic you saw a long time back that didn't impress you.

Also, what strategic target is there in the center of Donetsk which is pelted with cluster munitions by Ukraine?

Never heard of it. Did this happen recently? I heard that some local commander fired on a civilian area early in the war, and he got criticized for it by the Ukrainian government, not sure if he was fired or what, but that was a long time ago now.

You are smart enough to know that the pieces of shit in charges of Europe and America don't care one bit about "civilian casualties".

You're wrong, I think they very much do. Just because your side doesn't, doesn't mean the rest of the world operates that way. You keep projecting and trying to pretend like everyone is the same. That's not true. Some people, like Russia and China, are just evil.

There's being arrogant and there's being stupid. Surely, the Russian high command is smarter than a "Reddit moderator", since you assured me that I am very stupid for being one (in the past)?

You have more sense than Putin and the Russian High Command because you don't live in the bubble of incompetent yes-men that Putin cultivated around himself. You're expressing disbelief, but you don't have an alternative explanation.

But then the 'arrogance' card does not make sense. You would bomb barracks full of soldiers if you wanted such a systemic collapse.

It does, but the Russians were also incompetent. The Russians were betting that the Ukrainians would lack the will to fight. But you're correct that clear military targets were totally ignored or Russia otherwise failed to attack them. I would again point to the Ukrainian air force, which totally escaped destruction early on even though Russia had the element of surprise and should have blasted every air base in Ukraine to rubble in the opening hours. It didn't happen. So then Ukraine dispersed its aircraft and hide them away so that when Russia did belatedly shoot cruise missiles at some air bases, they didn't hit any aircraft. By contrast, Ukraine successfully caught Russians stacking up planes in their forward air bases within artillery range more than once, and blew up a couple dozen of them.

There is no explanation for this that makes sense other than a mixture of arrogance and incompetence.

Alright, so every single bridge in Little Russia is now fair game.

Oh? Did the FSB contractors get a memo to call Ukraine "little russia" now? lol. Well, they have ALWAYS been fair game. Just look at the Pidyomnyy/Zatoka Bridge south of Odessa, far from the fighting just like Kerch. Russia kept throwing cruise missiles at it for months, and finally succeeded in closing it in June/July afaik but I don't have any recent sources on it.

So if Russia can do it, so can Ukraine. Russia cries when Kerch gets blown up, but it had just done the same thing to Zatoka and bragged about it in state media.

Russia is like a bully who is beating up on some smaller kid, and then the kid lands a good punch and Russia gets a bloody nose, then Russia gets REALLY MAD because the bullied kid was supposed to just lie down and take it and not fight back. It's all so pathetic.