Thread by @emeriticus

Ukraine's strategy actually seems to be maximizing civilian casualties by organizing around civilians and civilian infrastructure so that the US and NATO will get directly involved

https://twitter.com/ASBMilitary/status/1498268034510827524

Fortunately, not many civilians seem to have been killed yet and Russians have so far left infrastructure untouched. People mostly still seem to have water, electricity, etc

People will balk at what I am saying, but we are actually familiar with this strategy, it's just typically employed by Middle East insurgents rather than Europeans

Ukrainians still have access to infrastructure. Russians aren't indiscriminately bombing anything. When they hit civilian buildings, it's because Ukrainian's position troops/materiel there. This is why they haven't been doing to Ukraine what they did to Syria and have moved slow

But as this gets dragged out, Russians will more than likely start being less restrained about their targets. A quick resolution is how you avoid more casualties