Vox points to a statement from Benny Shapiro of Nashville.
Russia is not a first-world power. Russia is a second-world power. As they suggested, it’s a gas station with a nuclear arsenal. That doesn’t mean it’s not geostrategically important. It doesn’t mean it can’t cause all sorts of headaches and problems for the West. It doesn’t mean that it can’t turn off the gas that they get and cause serious problems for Western and Eastern Europe.
What it does mean is that when Russia goes to war, Russia does not go to war the same way the United States does. It does not go to war the same way Israel, or the UK, or NATO does. When Russia goes to war, it basically just uses overwhelming force and kills enormous numbers of civilians.
And what we’re seeing is that the Russians don’t even have the number of supplies that they need to fight this battle. What that means is that the war gets ugly, it gets ground down, and very vicious, street fighting, lots of civilian deaths, and this has been part of Russia’s playbook for quite a while. They’ve been using this since Chechnya in the late 1990s. If you cannot pacify a region, you just start killing as many civilians as you can.
At the very least, you try to shock and awe people into surrendering, by killing civilians and demonstrating that you are harder than they are, that you do not care how many civilians you have to kill.
Ben Shapiro, 3 November 2023
Other than the spelling of "Russia," Shapiro gets everything wrong. Every. Damn. Thing.
Dresden and Hiroshima were not perpetrated by Russia, for openers; and Li'l Benny's fable about 'civilian deaths' in Ukraine........nope. But it IS true that the Ukrainian army is no longer following the orders of Zelenskiy (a brother to Benny) to commit suicide attacks. And it IS true that millions of Ukrainian civilians are not dead because they are now living in Western Europe and the US as "refugees."
Next time Vicky Nuland sends you your talking points, Benny, do 5 cents' worth of research.
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