It might be the opposite: the maximum of what they can achieve. Russia is constrained by the shortage of the most important military resource - the ability to plan and execute the effective use of all the other resources.
When your "brain" is capable then you can adapt and make up for other weaknesses - much like Israel was able to do early on. When it isn't it doesn't matter how big or strong the rest of the body is. Russian military is brain-dead on a level that makes NATO look like the reincarnation of Einstein. The only question is how much of it is endemic to the military establishment itself and how much of it is caused by political structures outside of the military.
For me the best evidence is no combined assault at the Dniester estuary.
Exactly what strategical importance would be regards of that area ?
The Kerson wasn't strategically significante, due to the very limited logistic capacity. Means it wasn't possible to support a front with a single railway and road bridge, and the width of the river was too big for ferries.
How should it looks if there is a need to transport material on water, in the front of the NATO assets ?
Russia Stronk'ers are the military equivalent of flat-earthers or Wehraboos so their presence in this thread turned it into a useless waste of time. But Russia was still fully capable of capturing all of the coast, the land bridge to crimea and some of the eastern part of the country. Whether it made strategic sense (it didn't) is another question but militarily they could do it if they prepared for it. Wars are won by whoever is better prepared. But to prepare you need to have a brain to develop a plan. Whatever is the equivalent of the brain in Russian military wasn't working. I think this is why their army is moving in Ukraine like an army of zombies.
They want braaaaaaiiiiins.
If so then seriously they invaded the wrong country for that. What a clusterf...
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Sure, the west playing 3D chess, and the slavs west of the Elbe simple idiots. At least by your description.
Or the clown in the NATO wanted to push a spearheads into Donetsk at the begining of 2022, and the Russian move was an unplaned, suddend one to prevent it.
For 6 monthe they tried to make a minimum accepatble peace plan, but there was no interestin regards of that in the NATO.
NATO target full dominance over the chessboard.
And what is about this human wave ?
If thez using human wave tactics then we should expect endless mobilisation in Russia .
But there is no sign of that.
Other side, the Ukrainans making cordons around Liviv, and breaking into homes to collect the males strong enought to carry a machine gun. middle aged mans mask as women to be able to shop in the stores.
I would take it as a sign of "ukrainan human wave tactics".
Tanks is only the first step, more will come in. NATO is testing Russia's redline. If they pass this line safely, they will try another line. Their purpose is obvious; to make Russia collapse.
Anther worshipers in the geniuses of the NATO.
There is red line only for Russia, the NATO for 30 years exploring all possible red line, and cross it repeatedly to force everyone else to react.
Until there was a big advantage economically it worked, but this war is the first sign of the end of old world order.
Red line was the accession of the baltics countries into the NATO, everything else is just rubbing it more.
And everyone is so noise on this topics about senseless posts, at the same time there is a third front open in Uledar, by Russia marines :
