Did Afghanistan really put their babies on the road to trap soviet forces??
No, it was Venom Snake who did that
>>17982498>put baby in road>tank simply runs over themExplain the logic here? It's like the human shield thing with Palis. Israel simply bombs anything that moves. They don't give a flying fuck. It makes no sense whatsoever that they do anything like this.
>>17983259It's a win-win. Either the tank driver is exceptionally conscientous and gets trapped with this, giving you a tactical advantage, or he runs over the baby, incurring a huge hit against his side's image and giving you a propaganda advantage. There are too many babies around and this is a better investment of them since some of them will starve or die anyway
>>17983268But did Afghanistan really do this?
>>17983259I think Hamas' strategy has a major flaw (that's another discussion though) but it makes sense if you think diabolically. It's to create lose/lose situations to demoralize the enemy and destroy their reputation in the world.Hamas' strategy has been to build a vast underground tunnel system, provoke a war, then retreat underground. There's no real way to destroy the tunnels (enemy military infrastructure) without destroying the surface BTW and Hamas lays booby traps everywhere where they think Israeli troops will advance. The civilians are trapped on the surface. Israel then destroys everything. Hamas propaganda operations (they invest heavily in this) then broadcast the destruction across the planet to sympathetic audiences. That's basically it.Of course, Israel doesn't have to turn Gaza into a parking lot, but if they don't proceed, they lose (because Hamas still exists and holds Israeli hostages), and the reality of urban warfare is that they'll take much higher casualties unless they're willing to bring overwhelming force to bear. Hamas' strategy is to also make that a loser for Israel because it destroys their reputation. Also, Israel doesn't have that many people and they have a reservist army, they don't really have the numbers (or at least the political will) to occupy and hold Gaza, so they raid in and out / "clearing" areas and leveling them with bulldozers.>>17983672I don't know about that specifically and it's not really "Afghanistan" but people do all kinds of sick and twisted things in war, like using kids as suicide bombers, or cutting off the head of an enemy soldier, tying it to an RPG warhead and then firing it at the enemy.
>>17983711Israel could stop providing Hamas and gazans with an excuse to do violence by not allowing its settlers to slowly gnaw away the West Bank (whose inhabitants have for the most part decided for peaceful resignation), which would show there is an alternative to martyrdom or whatever the fuck muslims call it, but we know Israeli leadership has no desire for an outcome that isn't an idiotic forever war of victimization and revictimization.
>>17983812The problem is that both sides do things which convince the extremists on the other side that they're right. Like if Israel withdrawal from the West Bank, the extremists there think Hamas or somebody like them with take over like what happened in Gaza after Israeli troops pulled out in 2005. So the Israelis are not going to withdraw.
>>17983812>>17983899If Israel backed down like that in any way now, it would be interpreted as Hamas's strategy being successful and encourage its further application. The conflict is too deep to be talked out now, it's killed or be killed at this point.
>>17982498that was a great manga shame they didint finish translating it.
>>17982498I'd just run them over. I can't have kids so I'll make sure no one else can either. I am a crab in a bucket.
>>17983711Stfu kike
Western journalists and aid workers documented brutal tactics on both sides, including Soviet use of butterfly mines, which maimed children who picked them up.
>>17984331What manga?
>>17983812>he thinks the palestinians just want the west bankThey were offered this multiple times and turned it down, because they operate under the deluded belief that all of Israel MUST be theirs too.
>>17983711Israel's problem is that there is a fine line between terrorizing the population enough to make them submit and terrorizing the population too much that they no longer have anything to lose.
>>17985514>throws your baby to get run over by a tank because you "no longer have anything to lose"I really don't understand muslims. Do they just not care if their kids live or die?
>>17985521>Do they just not care if their kids live or die?>>17985514
>>17985473>he didn't understand a thing I said and went with "le memestinians are at fault for rejecting muh plans" which has literally nothing to do with my pointHopefully you are a bot and not some zoomie zionist parroting talking points.
>>17985529>700 days of rapeh-hot
>>17982498That story is pure Cold War propaganda, a perfect example of dehumanizing 'the enemy'. Think about it. What kind of strategic genius uses their own infants as landmine detectors? It is a myth designed to make an invaded people seem like irrational fanatics instead of victims. It is easier to justify an occupation if you believe the locals are subhuman.
>>17982498You are from the storytime, aren't you?
>>17982498>implying the Soviet tanks wouldn’t run them over
