Commenters do not comprehend this video although they believe that they do. Commenters are quite sure they know what they're seeing. And they've been lied to enough to be suspicious and cynical about everything, especially Russians who say, more than one say, this video is actually "somewhere in the vastness of Texas."
Everybody is disappointed there is so little violence, so little destruction.
The video is fun to advance frame by frame to watch the shadow approach its target and see what little damage is done. Considering the cost of delivering the precise explosive power to the precise spot on the target, why is the calculation for leaving a low-volume type of pump in repairable condition? Coalition forces are calculating ISIS cannot affect even a simple repair but proper managers can and even this low-volume pump will have value as future asset. Coalition spent a lot of money to temporarily disable a low value future asset. And they avoided an oil fire.
ISIS ability to avail the resource was destroyed temporarily, not the low-volume pump. They are delivered a debilitating setback by merely creating a need for a replacement part.
That's the thing about complex systems, not the pump, the oil producing industry, it doesn't take much to wreck the whole thing. A few truck, a few pipes, a few parts on a few pumps does the trick. The advanced civilization is right there with whatever is needed for repairs, the usurping backward civilization will have to find them or take them or recruit them. Their expertise is in taking things violently, and killing, and ruining things, not in managing operations profitably so operations break down and cannot be effectively repaired and little disruptions natural and otherwise hasten and worsen the process. Venezuela, Cuba, ISIS, economies that are stolen, are the same economic process of scratching with jury-rigged broken down parts, limping on busted legs.
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