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And it's true that despite the horrors playing out in ukraine, this is not yet on the scale of aleppo or grozny. but it is — as quentin sommerville said — from the same russian playbook. it's this approach. if you don't have the manpower to take a city street by street, then they simply besiege it and starve and bombard people while conducting strikes on particularly hospitals, to make life unlivable in those cities and force a capitulation. this is particularly relevant because if putin was hoping for a quick victory in ukraine, that's not happened. they continue to be frustrated by a ver...

Talking about putin's definition of success changing. i think when he went into it ukraine, what he expected was the ukrainian military would fold, that nato would fight amongst itself, and this would be very easy for his military to take kyiv, two do — a ridiculous claim to begin with — but i think he realises this will be a very long and difficult fight —— denazify. so perhaps he's coming to understand that this war is not going well, and may be looking for a face—saving way out. that might be something along the lines of settling for donbas as an independent region. he may be look...