16 April 2022

Putin Learns A Lesson Washington Knows All Too Well: Military Power Can Kill People, But It Can’t Change Them

Loren Thompson

President Biden has taken to describing Russian military tactics in Ukraine as genocidal.

Some Western leaders, such as French President Macron, think that is rhetorical overkill.

However, there is a simple operational reason why Russia may be resorting to the indiscriminate killing of civilians: Ukrainians are proving to be far less tractable to the application of military force than Russian strongman Vladimir Putin expected.

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