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The Economics Behind Mariupol

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Are Cities Particularly Vulnerable During Wartime?

Cities can only exist on the basis of the division of labour. They don't fundamentally grow their own food. Once you cut them off, they starve. And they also become deeply unsanitary because they are such dense population cities. So it's an attack on the city as such. You just literally flatten block after block. This his been perpetrated on a small scale, for instance, relatively speaking, by the israeli forces,. in assaults on ongaza and beyrout.

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