Vokzalnaya Street in Bucha was a landscape of desolation and carnage, filled with the abandoned skeletons of Russian tanks torn apart by Ukrainian artillery and missiles, with the broken and burned bodies of soldiers trapped in the twisted metal.
It was an image in miniature of the destruction we saw on the road to Basra and outside Benghazi, when the forces of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were caught in the open and pulverised by western aircraft in the first Gulf war and the Arab spring.
