Downside of paper houses.

Considering that Russians had slaughtered tens of millions of Russians in their Civil War, Collectivization, and purges before Hitler even took power, it seems fair to describe the Russian attitude towards the taking of human life less as “tolerance of” than “enthusiasm for”.

Using cluster bombs is not, in and of itself, a terrible thing. Cluster bombs are designed to kill masses of enemy troops.

I agree completely. But once we started winning the Battle of the Atlantic the war in Europe was over. It was only a question of how many lives it would cost and how much longer it would have taken. With the US where it is geographically, with the large population we have, once the sea lanes were cleaned up we were…

I didn’t say anything about Lend-Lease? Although Lend-Lease was already supplying aircraft to the Soviets in good numbers before Kursk.

Sure.

If you mean “defeat ISIS”, you’re completely incorrect, because that’s not what they’re doing. The US wasn’t TRYING to defeat the people the Russians are fighting, because to the Russians and to Assad, anyone who opposes him is a terrorist. And that’s pretty obvious bullshit.

The freedoms we enjoy in the US to speak out against the government are much much much more so than that enjoyed by Russian citizens. Russians are terrified of Putin and the government. I was talking a high school buddy of mine, whose long distance girlfriend is a Russian currently living in Russia for a few more…

No one remembers the systematic starvation of Ukrainians that Comrade Stalin put into action to get the USSR into Industrial age....

As far as the average Russian is concerned this is part of a giant middle finger to the US and Obama. They probalby count each bomblet as a sortie, so the running tally keeps ticking up.

Total BS

I dont get it.. If footage was shown on U.S. news Chanels of U.S. forces using Cluster bombs on a occupied city, all hell would break lose. Does your average Russian not ever see this, or do they just not give a shit?

Bombs did indeed defeat nazism, but Marshal Help won the peace. The “peace” that the russians have made in Caucasus, by flattening large parts of Tchetnya and instating war lords all over, have not won them any new friends. USA won a generation of friends in Western Eropean and Eastern Asian Politicians after WW2 by…

The anti-war movement should change its name to anti-US or Israel-war movement.

Yeah we would have. It just would have been far more costly and lasting significantly longer. Once the US got it’s industry spun up there was no stopping the allies. We supplied multiple countries, with ridiculous amount of munitions, while fighting a 3 front war.

Let’s put it into perspective though. They love to make themselves out as the vanquishers of the evil Nazis while conveniently forgetting they started out the war kissing Hitler’s ass and furthering his objectives.

And those are good rules. We spent a hundred years making those rules, from the first fledeling conventions, through the Haag-conventions until the Geneva-convention. Sadly - after several generations of part home grown, part wars fought by proxy, in the Middle East during the Cold War, the even more unruly post cold…

Welcome to 2016. A lot has changed. You might want to check out Wikipedia to catch up. At least 80% of it is true.

Dropping very few precision munitions, on very precise targets, in an effort to kill as many of the bad guys while killing as little of the civilians as possible, as opposed to just dumping shit all over everyone indiscriminately?

War also has rules, and those rules involve not dropping bombs indiscriminately on unrelated civilian populations.