Fake! These are two different men!
The War in the Ukraine
- Thread starter SampanViking
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I guess we'll find out with time, but with the number of "Russian General killed / captured" claims that have been debunked the last few months its more likely this is more of the same
no one is going to put million troops to secure every city. where there is threat of sabotage inside cities. Pull troops out and let Ukrainian take it and than deal with costly supply lines of each city.
by now Turks have good idea of both sides capability to sustain this operations and overall education level of society.
This is really pathetic for the so called 2nd strongest military in the world. Had they swallowed their pride and bought Chinese drones few years ago, they would be having military supermacy in Ukrainian skies. But now they have to resort to dropping grinades and buying crappy drones from Iran.
If Iranian drones are crappy what does that make Western air defense missiles that couldn’t stop them for the longest time?
why you need large drones that can be seen by AWACS at greater distance. ground targets are much harder to identify and need much closer to battlefield surveillance.
it is small drones, and artillery that provide the surprise shot. overuse of large turbo prop drones are not going to make it efficient.
similar systems are now deployed on Su-34M but it is still several tons on center paylon.
This offensive could certainly change the tide of the war, Russia must throw everything at Balakliya Bulge in other to take things more controllable if not than it could jeopardize the entire Special Military Operation
Most likely it is planned to throw everything at them.
AFU got burned in Kherson already, they wouldn't take similar sized bait again. Especially if military men are back in command again. Something more juicy is needed. The Izyum salient unlike the Kherson one, is one that at least to an amateur looks like it could go either way. That is a risk taken, but there is presumably some sort of plan behind it.
As I see it, the tide of war can only be changed if NATO forms their own volunteer army and cross the Polish border with hundreds of thousands of troops. Then, we must talk PLA intervention with an equal sized army, to balance the sides and prevent a suicidally aggressive NATO from trying to take Russian territory and incur nuclear disaster.
Ukraine has been playing the USA card since day 1 but Russia has yet to play the China card. Beijing doesn't even need to commit volunteers or draw from its stockpiles like NATO. Just sending dual use technology such as DJI drones and suicide drone swarm systems would be a strongly impactful first step.
Every feint like this, even the penis of Kherson, ends up costing many pro Russian Ukrainian lives, not just AFU casualties. Especially if larger settlements are involved like now, then we might see a repeat of Bucha. By not making the RU armed forces the strongest they can be, Putin is trading the lives of people who ostentibly serve Russia just to buy time in the economical war to weaken NATO. The same result could be achieved with far less casualties should Russia had closely integrated their army to the PLA.