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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are Russian generals getting killed?[/quote]

Because people with rifles are shooting at them.

So much for the “you can’t fight a modern army with your silly AR15” meme, huh? [/quote]

This is 100% true.  And after Ukraine, it cannot be refuted.[/quote]
Well, it can because it’s clear after Ukraine that Russia doesn’t have a “modern army.”[/quote]

Please tell us how an army - any army, modern or not - can occupy territory with a local population that is armed, angry,  and shooting at them 24hrs a day.

I spent half my 30’s deployed in OEF and OIF. The ONLY reason we were able to occupy those nations was because only a tiny, tiny fraction of the population was a combatant. Most of the people didn’t actively HATE us…..But if even 10% of the Afghans or Iraqis had picked up a rifle and taken a shot at us whenever one presented itself,  we’d have had the same outcome the Russians are having right now.

You *cannot* occupy territory where an armed population is resisting you in significant numbers. Period. The only solution in that scenario is to depopulate the area of all civilian personnel capable of resisting. Something the US has never done  -  because we haven’t needed to.

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