Very similar to the “human shields” rhetoric we’re seeing today to justify leveling whole cities in Gaza. In WWII it was, “we are bombing civilians to weaken their war machine”, despite all evidence that showed strategic bombing did absolutely nothing to the war machine except galvanise the populace against the enemy and reinvigorate their commitment to winning the war.
Very similar to the “human shields” rhetoric we’re seeing today to justify leveling whole cities in Gaza. In WWII it was, “we are bombing civilians to weaken their war machine”, despite all evidence that showed strategic bombing did absolutely nothing to the war machine except galvanise the populace against the enemy and reinvigorate their commitment to winning the war.