Ukrainian War Developments

[james smith esq]

Russians made some major tactical mistakes violating basic laws of warfare:

1) Lack of concentration of forces/firepower. They split their troops against 4 or 5 different fronts at least, and the result with no overwhelming advantage in either one.

2) Lack of internal lines of supply. This was the problem for the White Russians during the Russian Civil War 1917-1922. The Bolsheviks eventually succeeded in part due to occupying central territories, so they could easily shift troops around from front to front depending on need. Meanwhile, Russians have to move troops in a huge circle in order to shift supply between fronts.

I think we might draw two inferences, based in conventional tactics:

1) the generalist (multi-axes) approach was taken with the expectation that reserves would be committed to the axis on which a major breakthrough occurred.

2) the much celebrated southern axis was not the primary focus as insufficient reserves were positioned to follow up on a breakthrough outside the region.

As no breakthrough has occurred, except for the one along the southern coast, Russia has not had an opportunity to concentrate their a forces for a decisive engagement.

Additionally, the advance towards Kyiv has been nothing but perplexing, as it would seem that Russia did, indeed, concentrate sufficient forces, but did not follow-through. Perhaps the choice of an armored assault on the Capital was a flawed strategy to begin with?

 

[yongpengsuen]

Kharkiv and Mariupol will break Ukraine's back. These are Ukraine's second biggest city and second biggest port city. A weak Ukraine will be ripe for a future invasion. One step at a time.

 

[Appix]

Von der Leyen’s move comes a day after the Association of European Journalists called on the EU to implement a bloc-wide ban on RT, and have its journalists “removed.” It also comes several days after the EU sanctioned RT’s editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan.

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[sheogorath]

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Speaking of which, that nutjob Tymoshenko has been largely absent from the news in this issue or its just me?

 

[sferrin]

Kharkiv and Mariupol will break Ukraine's back. These are Ukraine's second biggest city and second biggest port city. A weak Ukraine will be ripe for a future invasion. One step at a time.

Nah fam. If Putin doesn't take it ALL guess who will be joining NATO, and be received with open arms? Talk about an own-goal.

 

[sequ]

Even 'neutral' Sweden is supporting Ukraine

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497982746123247623

 

[james smith esq]

You're saying that I'm 6 feet 3 inches tall?

EDIT: whatever man I'm just gonna block this guy.

Lon Chaney, the man of 1000 faces (avatars)!

And I thought we had a good back and forth goin’ on, especially after you called me a child predator!

Turns out you’re soft-skinned!

Bye, Punk!

LOL

 

[9dashline]

Just like how you think Xi Jinping will be coup'd, right?

Looks like this thread brought out all the copium addicts.

Despite MarKoz81's usual long-winded soliloquies in which he often performances dry analytical lovings of the reverberations of his own echo, it would appear he got triggered and uncharisteristically exploded in bout of emotional outburst here...the stark contrasting juxtaposition could not have been more palpable here.

His initial superlong analysis when the war first started a mere short 4 days ago concluded in saying that "violence is a sign of the weak"... Without qualifying in full context, that statement cannot posssibly be true, if mere violence in and of itself is a sign of weakness then I suppose the United States should be the weakest entity in the entire history of the world

I will conclude by saying outbursts are a sign of position of disempowerment

 

[Abominable]

It's also puzzling why Russia is not fighting the propaganda war, They should have tons of footages.

They had the upper hand initially but were completely overwhelmed. Most social media is western based. Losses have been similar on both sides, but 90% of losses being posted on twitter are Russian.

It doesn't really matter in the end. Armenia was overwhelming winning the social media war against Azerbaijan right until the end of the war. When people found out it was all a lie, they stormed government buildings.

 

[sheogorath]

Nah fam. If Putin doesn't take it ALL guess who will be joining NATO, and be received with open arms? Talk about an own-goal.

Like you received Georgia?.