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Re:Defensive tactics from the modern history of urban warfare by dalbasal on Saturday February 26, 2022 @03:52PM (#30481846)
Almost all analogies are bad and distracting, to some extent.

Itoh, I do think it gets across, coarsely, a point about the sentiment scape. Russian people's tolerance of Ukrainian suffering can't be taken for granted. Kievans haven't attacked them, or given Russians much reason to hate them. Hate is a necessary ingredient for that kind of war.

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Re:Defensive tactics from the modern history of urban warfare by InCityDreams on Saturday February 26, 2022 @08:02PM (#30484159)
It's great to know someone else (coarsely) feels this way. Once people introduce analogies, I give up as they a) become a discussion about the analogy, or b) result in further analogies, and further discussions not about the original argument.

'Bad and distracting'. Yes.

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Re:Defensive tactics from the modern history of urban warfare by jessaustin on Saturday February 26, 2022 @04:40PM (#30482237)
Hate is a necessary ingredient...

Not when there is control fraud. Very few Americans hate Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians, Yemenis, Afghans, Palestinians, Vietnamese, etc.

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