How come America managed to capture this megacity of more than 5 million at the time in just 5 days? With just a force of 30k against iraq's 45k? and only ended up with like 2k civilians, and only 34 soldiers, dead?
Are white people, simply put, superhumans, when compared with russians?
american weapons tech and mainly operational intelligence is 2nd to none. Eyes and ears in the skies and on the streets. It's why we are #1.
we just bombed the fuck out of civilians and their infrastructure so if they didnt surrender they would all die. this post was brought to you by Israel.
Americans bombarded the place without any remorse of preserving. The Russians on the other hand don't want to destroy captured lands.
Show proof. Statistics of civilian buildings destroyed, civilian deaths, etc.
>You get blitzkriegd in two weeks.
Cmon bruh ur not even trying.
America lied.
Thats classified information. I think public inquiries into 9/11 show how information isn't realised.
What if I told you that blitzkrieg isn't a military tactic, but a made up term created by historians.
>we just bombed the fuck out of civilians
did you? any pics of bombed-the-fuck-out baghdad in april of 2003? was it dresden tier?
They've been to the moon. They'll be back there again any time now. Elon just needs some more bucks for his shareholders.
7200 civilian deaths in 2003 invasion of Iraq. 10,000 to 25,000 civilians killed in Ukraine war so far.
More tomfoolery. Numbers not genuine, the perfect even numbers being the biggest indicator. In Ukraine paramilitary can be considered civilian, because in a way thats all they really are, armed civilians.
Those are the biggest numbers.
so, no explanation?
Easy. No one, from generals on down, was willing to die for Saddam. Ukrainians, for whatever reason, are willing to fight if not for Ukraine, then at least to not be under Russia's thumb. It's all about morale.
We had overwhelming air superiority in Iraq. Russia is dealing with a very sophisticated air defense network which makes things far more difficult. Even though we didn't carpet bomb cities, the US aircrews were able to destroy relevant targets. That being said I don't think we gave too many fucks if it meant annihilating a few housing blocks.
waiting for the local germ bro to own your arse.
iraqis had morale in 1991 and the world's 4th strongest army at least according to the same bullshit that puts russia's shit army as the 2nd strongest... well they still lost
You must be too young to have seen it.
Just live footage of bombs.
Shock and awe.
Russia is going for an absolutely minimal dead civilian count unlike the United States quick and dirty, by any means necessary approach to capturing the city of Baghdad
2k civilian deaths to capture a city is unacceptable (the real number was likely considerably higher than that).
This is being referred to as an 'operation' instead of a war and there are some very obvious reasons for that.
Slower, more methodical, but as a result, far fewer civilian casualties and hopefully less damage to historical architecture as well, although that's an afterthought when considering human lives.
Iraqis only have morale when it comes to killing each other and Iranians.
No dude that's not at all what happened. Civilian casualties caused by Americans was minimal.
>Russia is dealing with a very sophisticated air defense network which makes things far more difficult.
Iraq had a way more sophisticated air defense network in 1991. Baghdad was the world's most well defended city by that point.
You managed to achieve superiority within the first week then. With missiles, and bombs dropped from stealth bombers
Russia still hasn't. Because they have no good missiles (and they don't have enough of them) and no stealth bombers
shock & awe targets military & administrative centers, not civilian population. decapitation, what do you think it means? what a retard
This. We handcuffed ourselves with some many rules of engagement policies. Any civilian casualties from us were minimal and taken very seriously with our commanders being investigated fully.
This. Everyone who isn't a zoomer recalls the footage on the opening days of the war.
Especially that shot at night of some of the initial carpet bombing runs.
Effectively, as soon as the word "war" was uttered, the world started shaking behind every single news reporter that was there as the US started dropping ordinance everywhere.
In Ukraine, it's far more precise and measured. Specific buildings have been targeted, but we aren't seeing the entire areas being carpeted as the US did in Baghdad.