Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "Russia Moves into Severodonetsk, Ukraine Suffers Heavy Losses in Kherson, EU Split on Russia Oil Ban" video.

Sun Tzu described the importance of given a defender an escape route so that they would not fight with the determination of the doomed. Of course, Sun Tzu was about winning with as few casualties as possible. He put a lot of emphasis on controlling terrain and making sure one fought were the terrain favored them. If Russia is fighting with limited manpower, and I think we can all agree that that is the case, then allowing a city's defenders an exit route may very well be the best way to take control of a region without sacrificing all of an army's troops, so long as they can make sure that it's a one-way street.
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