Comments by "Hookah Smoking Caterpillar" (@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar) on "Ukraine took out top Russian General using geolocation" video.

@voidwalker9223 I think that's a very Western European perspective. If you are a Finn, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Pole, Romanian, Turk, Chinese or of any number of central Asian states that no longer exist Russia is very much an expansionist, 'offensive' state looking at its history. And it's 'defensive' nature didn't do a lot for it in 1904-1905 against Japan.
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@Historia_Bellorum As von Moltke the Elder said, "No plan survives first contact with the enemy."
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@voidwalker9223 The view put forward was that Russia was essentially a 'defensive' nation, I don't think it is unreasonable to point out that is not the case based on history. Don't forget the Finns, Baltic states, Poland and Romania all had to face Soviet aggression during the run-up to Russian involvement in WW2 proper. The reason why Russia has few PGMs is not due to a favouring of dumb bombs (that is an utterly facile argument, PGMs are as valuable in offence as defence), it's because of corruption within the Russian state.
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@rick7424 Tell that to Kharkiv or Mariupol.
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@voidwalker9223 Your point about experience is manifest, one only has to look at the ambush on those tanks yesterday to realise just how far the Russians have to go - it's like they learned nothing from Grozny in the first Chechen war. I'm not sure if I would go so far as to say flattening things with artillery and air strikes is a doctrine, after all that's not what happened in Crimea or in Kherson, but it certainly seems to be a preferred tactic if urban resistance is 'too stiff.' It would be interesting to know quite where the cut-off point that leads to mass bombardment is -- especially if one is in Kyiv right now.
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