As far as the first part, yes, I believe that's exactly what happened. Russia warned and warned, and when that terrible shit finally arrived in theater, they couldn't wait until after it was dispersed to combat units, let alone fired off in the east.

They had to hit it and get it all in one go. As you may have seen no one wishes to publicly concur with my analysis of the type of weapon used, but I judge it was determined by this very consideration. One or even several cruise or theater ballistic missiles with conventional warheads fired at a bunker in hopes of starting a fire is far from a certain way to destroy perhaps thousands of separate munitions.

As far as the second part, it's not that they're retards, it's that what is driving them is different than what would be driving you or I were we in their places. What we have to do if figure out what their imperatives are.

We're beyond the valley of rationality and historical precedence, so it's almost all gut feelings and guesswork, but as I see it, "They" are in the "Thelma & Louise" mode of desperation. All They can really do at this point is hit the gas and head over the cliff.

Hey, none of us know for a fact that Thelma and Louise didn't make to the bottom and drive off laughing, now do we?