google the word “disanalogy” and then think a little. will help you.

employed by the Russians (one example is the bridges over the Dnieper, 2 years before generation was targeted, etc) but that’s a somewhat different conversation to begin with.

“Ukraine has been subject to drone and missile “joint firepower strikes” for almost three years straight and it has availed the Russians nothing”

This seems genuinely v difficult to believe, even inc. some pretty dubious assumptions. There is something to be said about that actual targeting…

They’ve come a long way since the 50s yes

lol

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No, this wasn’t possible. You can model it with the forces they had at the time, where they’d stage from, which units etc. Just wasn’t enough. Ru had a massive overwhelming advantage in the south. Plus a modern army fighting on 2 other axes. Very few countries could deal with that.

in fairness the paper you’re almost certainly thinking of doesn’t actually argue that/come to those conclusions. It’s misrepresented a lot online.

This is sort of like tracing the Vietnam war back to 1962.

My recollection as a kid was that silver iodide does work, but it could screw weather patterns/produce unwanted second order effects, so we don’t use it. Plus people don’t like govt manipulating weather, we don’t need it to stop famines etc. Cool tech tho

If they are okay with it could you share a link once it’s done? I’ve heard conflicting things about space based (and Ru countermeasures)

well yes. reports had been flooding in the whole summer. “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US” remember?

We have a lot of (good) lit on the Israeli record wrt LOAC and simple domestic policy vis-a-vis the Palestinians. On their use of torture, adventures in Lebanon, so forth. It wasn’t surprising that they would immediately start mass murder in Gaza.

Could you explain the Magna Carta one please?