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ZXCChort t1_jecqq3q wrote
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I mean that an attack on the capital would force the Russians into battle.
quantdave t1_jecv2td wrote
I don't think it necessarily would, though: the Austrians hadn't fought a last-ditch battle at the city gates, so it couldn't be assumed in Russia either with the assets of its space and its weather, especially given the capital's peripheral location. A calculation that the enemy might leave him to plod around an abandoned palace as his troops froze or starved wouldn't have been unreasonable.
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