Surovikin has stated publicly that there will be no half measures in Ukraine. Surovikin comes from the technologically sophisticated Aerospace Forces, but has fought on the ground in Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Syria where he is credited with saving the Assad regime. Last month Putin gave General Sergey Surovikin overall command of Russia's war in the Ukraine.

Now he is about to unleash his own General Sherman and make Ukraine howl. Faced with a new situation, Putin changed his strategy. Putin had not counted on Ukraine's stiff resistance or the West's massive military and economic intervention. He expected a quick victory followed by negotiations on his principal concerns: Russian control of Crimea, Ukrainian neutrality, and autonomy for the Russian population in the Donbas, but he was wrong. Putin's initial assault was limited to barely 150,000 troops. Russian President Vladimir Putin waited only six months before switching from a special military operation to full scale war against Ukraine. Only after three years of stalemate did he turn to 'Unconditional Surrender Grant,' who in turn unleashed General William Tecumseh Sherman to 'make Georgia howl' and help bring the war to its decisively violent conclusion. During the early years of America's Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sought a limited conflict against people he still regarded as fellow countrymen and with whom he sought reconciliation.

Russian civil war call of duty