Putin Learns A Lesson Washington Knows All Too Well: Military Power Can Kill People, But It Can’t Change Them

Loren Thompson

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President Biden has taken to describing Russian military tactics in Ukraine as genocidal.

Some Western leaders, such as French President Macron, think that is rhetorical overkill.

However, there is a simple operational reason why Russia may be resorting to the indiscriminate killing of civilians: Ukrainians are proving to be far less tractable to the application of military force than Russian strongman Vladimir Putin expected.