The War in the Ukraine
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He's hard core. Remember that Putin is also trying to hold back the hard core right wing factions both politically and in the military. Who knows what's going to happen if the hard core groups take power.
China had $3 billion worth of construction projects in the Ukraine when Russia invaded. That's all gone up in smoke. China is not likely to touch the area again.
While this is a step in right direction for Russia, it remain to be seen if this is one time off to save face or stepping up their game.
If anything, it show that Russia leader is a slow leaner and stubborn in the wrong area. It's took them 7 months to do something that should have been done in the first week of their SMO. One would wonder how the hell Russia leave Ukraine critical infrastructure like communication and electricity intact and expect them to surrender.
If anything, it show that Russia leader is a slow leaner and stubborn in the wrong area. It's took them 7 months to do something that should have been done in the first week of their SMO. One would wonder how the hell Russia leave Ukraine critical infrastructure like communication and electricity intact and expect them to surrender.
Russia doesn't have to mobilize right now on the spot, but advancing and eventually defeating Ukraine without sending significantly more troops would require a miracle. Never in modern war history has a force of 200 000 beaten a defender of 600 000.
If we ask ourselves how effective a Russian conscript is, the most likely answer is, about as effective as an Ukrainian one. So maybe they can't do things independently, but as demonstrated by Ukraine, you can use them en masse to hold the lines and let them follow the professional soldiers during an offensive and they do a good job at it.
Youre right that right now when Russians are outnumbered at least 2 to 1 if not 4 to 1 most of the time, it requires high skill for Russian soldiers to fight. But the level of skill needed will drastically reduce when Russia has equal amount of troops with air superiority and artillery advantage. Especially if Russia first knocks out critical Ukrainian infrastructure and degrade their ability to move western equipment to the frontline after they've been made overly reliant on western arms delivery, and only then send in the conscripts.
The winning moves is to keep taking good trades while avoiding any significant Russian regular losses, if necessary even pulling back as long as the southern bank isn't threatened (which would cut off Crimea). Once the AFU has been softened up by proxy/artillery warfare to the point where Russian conscripts can participate in the war without significant risks, the conscripts can go.
Or maybe Putin himself doesn’t have as much power as we think he does.
Please fact check your posts. That speech was delivered in July.
Tonghua (a.k.a. Yommie 2.0)...You consistently keep bringing up 147 million Russians vs. 43 million Ukrainian like population size is the final deciding factor...
What retarded logic, because population alone is irrelevant...How did Vietnam or Afghanistan or Mongolia defeat nations with much larger population? Population alone is irrelevant and will be auto-deleted.
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Utterly indefensible strategy by Russia. First thing in war is taking out the infrastructure (power grids, communications, transportation, etc). This should have been the strategy on day 1.
If they wanted to keep the infrastructure, fine, but apparently Zaporizhzhia Generating Station was still selling electricity to Ukrainian occupied regions, wtf? I mean it's one thing to not strike infrastructure you are going to capture but to still allow captured infrastructure to serve an opponent is just... Wtf...