"David P." <imbibe@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Bombing Kyiv Into Submission? History Says It Won’t Work.
> By Max Fisher, Oct. 11, 2022, NY Times
>
> President Putin of Russia, in ordering missile strikes on Kyiv and
> other Ukrainian cities, follows a long line of wartime leaders who
> have sought to cow their adversaries by bombing enemy capitals.
>
> Ever since Nazi Germany’s bombardment of London in WWII, enabled by
> the first long-range missiles and warplanes, nearly every major war
> has featured similar attacks.
[…]
> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/world/europe/russia-ukraine-kyiv-bombing.html

Do not forget The Tokyo Fire Storm by USAF. [A]
Isn't it the historic record proudly held by USA?

[A] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
> The Bombing of Tokyo was a series of firebombing air raids by the
> United States Army Air Force during the Pacific campaigns of World War
> II. Operation Meetinghouse, which was conducted on the night of 9–10
> March 1945, is the single most destructive bombing raid in human
> history.[1] 16 square miles (41 km2; 10,000 acres) of central Tokyo
> were destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over
> one million homeless.[1]

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