this is the standard Russian -- Soviet Russian way of war. Surround a city if they can and they are having trouble doing that, put it under siege, strangle it, prevent supplies, medicines, food, water, et cetera and then bombard the city for two purposes. One to destroy infrastructure and terrorize the population and their behavior in Ukraine seems to be unfortunately fitting that template.
James Clapper discusses the tactics used by Russian forces in Ukraine, describing them as a standard approach in their military strategy.
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The frequency with which they are occurring, tells me that they're kind of in - they realize they're kind of in a jam.
I expect this report will be filled with ambiguity as well and people depending on their leanings will extract what they want out of this report.
This is quite different. And, you know, shocking, stunning, but not surprising, a phrase that we often find ourselves using about revelations of abuse of power by the Trump administration.
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