Russia & Ukraine: A Year of War
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Warfare From History Podcast - What Are You Really Trying to Get Out of Your Tank?
Putin viewed Ukrainians, I think, as a race in Ukrainian civilians. The assumption that underlies that is the Ukrainians are a lesser people. If we just hit them hard, they'll just get scared and they'll run away. That's exactly what Hitler felt when he switched to the Blitz in London right? He famously was attacking all of the RAF targets and they were very, very close to completely defeating the RAF,. which were obviously laid open Britain for invasion. But at that point, they switched to attacking civilian targets and bombing cities because the feeling was, well, the citizenry are weak and if we bomb them, they'll panic and they'll get scared. It isn't
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