LogFAQs > #974389789

So Prigo planned this for months and didn't account for the families of his men being targeted, when Russia all along has targeted families more than the enemy troops?
God he's fucking stupid, if true.

ScazarMeltex posted...

It's unlikely that it was a ruse (anything is possible though) because this was still massively destabilizing/demoralizing for Russia's civilians in the region not to mention the confusion in military channels.

Eh... Maybe that's the point?
If *I* was a brutal dictator clinging to power via fear, I'd stage at least one "false hope" event during my reign. Where someone either secretly in cahoots with me, or some hapless moron I'm secretly providing arms and (not-so-loyal-after-all) troops to, rises up against me and gives the people hope, only to be swiftly and pathetically defeated and the (actual) conspirators viciously executed.
Then when an actual noble and capable revolutionary comes along wanting to depose me, the people will be jaded and apathetic about it, and suspect it's another trick to dupe them into their own early graves.
Just saying.