Russia's Latest Strategy Relies on Attrition Alone
Marshall S. Swanson 
LVIV, UKRAINE - Pound them into subservience: That is the new motto of Vladimir Putin. And we've now all seen it firsthand. Sonic booms now resound over the beautiful country of Ukraine. But unlike a returning space capsule or NASA's retired Shuttle, the bangs heard in Europe convey a message more sinister: destruction. The ever present threat of hypersonic missiles have turned the landscape of romantic hills, bucolic countryside, and quaint buildings into a horror scene.
Russia's military said Saturday it had used hypersonic missiles in combat for the first time to destroy an ammunition depot in Ukraine's west.
Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said the "Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles," was deployed Friday, in a video posted on Russian state media RIA's Telegram channel. He added that it "destroyed a large underground warehouse" containing "missiles and aviation ammunition" in the village of Delyatyn, a small community around 380 miles west of Ukraine's capital Kyiv.
What the Ukrainians lack in will can be forced out in power, says Putin in his new strategy: Guernica-style bombing into oblivion. Such an overhwleming power that no one can resist hearkens back to the words of two famed psychoanlylists: "Everyone has their breaking point," (Fairborn and Symington rightly noted this, and Russia seems to have picked up on it).
