Zelensky fired a bunch of generals who he deemed as “traitors.” It’s likely they were telling him the reality on the ground and not what he wanted to hear. Probably replaced them with true believers and aggressive generals to take the fight to Russian positions. Another could be he is facing heat from the ultranationalist neo nazis for the failure to save their brethren in Mauripol.But with the new helo attack in Belgorov and the change in Ukrainians aggressiveness in rescents days are maybe caused by some changes of commanding officers.
We see counter push a bit everywhere in the news and that Mi-24 attack was certainly well prepared. It's a bit late and could bring Ukrainians troops in dire situations like in Kherson. Still they have been able to kept some air power. The Mariupol rescue effort is astonishing risky but they still tried to do it.
It look like something changed, don't know if it's despair or if they have waited for the Russian troops to be weary before moving but maybe we will see more cohesive troops movements from the Ukraine side soon.
Pushing unnamed galactic hyperpower and South Korea back from Chinese borders and restoring North Korean sovereignty in 1950 Korean War. Crushing India in 1962. Crushing the Vietnamese Navy in 1988.Is there an example in recent modern history of the Chinese military demonstrating competency vs a peer level adversary? I'm not really well versed with Chinese military history, not anything like i am with NATO and Russian.
They had failed in Afghanistan after 20 years. Saudi Arabia with coalition and US support had spent 7 years in Yemen. It really depend on how much resiletnt you opponent and how much support he has.I wonder how long it would have taken the competent armies or NATO and China to capture Ukraine ceteris paribus .Two weeks ?
I think this is why the objective was never clear to begin with. I don't think for a minute that Russia believed that Ukraine would give up and let them stroll in. I mean even on this forum there were reposts from social media about how the morale of the Ukrainian military was at an all time high due to TB-2, NATO training, Javelins, and probable American support will likely to try to roll the separatists. This was back in November or so even before there was any build up in Russia.There's no country in NATO other than the unnamed galactic hyperpower that could take Ukraine. They ran out of missiles against Libya which is flat desert, highly concentrated in cities and has far smaller population.
China overran parts of occupied Korea in a few months at great cost which has less population and size than Ukraine. Same with Vietnam.
It is very hard to fight an entrenched enemy in cover that doesn't surrender. Why do you think unnamed galactic hyperpower doesn't touch Iran despite threatening them for 40+ years? Because they know that they don't have the capability to take cities from the Iranians without leveling them if they fought anywhere close to how they fought in the Iran Iraq war, and leveling them would require massive resources that would weaken them elsewhere.
Maybe they are turning radar on when NATO AWAC tell them to do so to diminish the chance of SEAD attacks ? Tiny quad copter drones spotting for artillery are probably impervious to most radar when they are staying still. In any case they got destroyed.
The rumor is there's foreign special forces trapped there.I think this weekend is going to mark the beginning of a pretty major escalation in fighting in Ukraine. Once mariupol is done with,
With the number of troops left in Mariupol, what is the point of sending less than half a dozen helo's to "rescue" anyone" Who are they are so desperate to rescue there? What can an Mi8 carry, 12-20 men?
Most drones used by Russians seem to be Orlan-10s, you can tell when the footage is low quality. They did use the decoy drones (which I thought were brilliant), but I guess NATO figured them out.Maybe they are turning radar on when NATO AWAC tell them to do so to diminish the chance of SEAD attacks ? Tiny quad copter drones spotting for artillery are probably impervious to most radar when they are staying still. In any case they got destroyed.