Dam Breaks and Pipeline Bombings
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The Russians' Anti-Ofensive on Crimea
The Russians are doing all kinds of things in the way of attacking civilians and attacking civilian infrastructure like apartment buildings that don't give them any military advantage. Why should I not look at this and interpret it as, hey, they anticipate having to withdraw from this area because they believe rightly or wrongly that the counter-offensive is going to be substantial and effective? This is a kind of vindictive effort to penalize civilians both by flooding their homes and by making areas normally agriculturally productive, toxic and unproductive. So could they've engaged in a self-destructive dumb action like this? I guess it's possible. I just don't think it's particularly likely, especially given they may
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