Really?? I thought it was be better to destory all those rails and reinforcements if they can.
Maybe they can't ?
Time will tell I guess. Hope it doesn't turn into a debacle like the northern front.
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Maybe they can't ?
Time will tell I guess. Hope it doesn't turn into a debacle like the northern front.
I suggest you learn first what ethnicity is and study European history. Ukrainians are in no way an exception. Most modern European ethnicities were forged less than 200 years ago in the process of national revival. The word "ethnicity" didn't even exist in the English language prior to WW2.
Second, you have no right to decide what ethnicity a person belongs to. Likewise, for the Taiwanese. They have a unique history, culture and sense of identity that fully justifies them to identify as Taiwanese if they so choose to.
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The best post on this subject in this forum so far!
You can go find the official Taiwanese stand, as well as what their education system tells them about ethnicity.
There are NO ethnicity in Taiwan called the "Taiwanese" ethnicity. The majority ethnicity in Taiwan is “漢人”(Han People), the minority ethnicities in Taiwan consists of minority ethnicity migrated from Mainland (for example, Hui ethnicity, 回族), and aboriginal minority ethnicities in Taiwan (臺灣原住民族，including Amis,阿美族，Paiwan,排湾族, etc.)
destroying rail from the air is an almost impossible task unless one could destroy choke points such as bridges or tunnels. That’s because damaged rail can often be repaired for less effort than the sorties required to damage it. It is not clear to me how many railway bridges there are in ukraine west of Dneiper. I certainly think there are very few railway tunnels in north, north east and eastern ukraine.
To actually halt rail transport from the air in this circumstances it requires a sustained weeks long effort against rolling stock and particularly locomotives.
If russia isn’t mounting a sustained close support air operation, a sustained operation against rail seems not in the cards.
one other thing that seems evident from russian performance up to now is russia seems to have either poor general real-time surveillance of enemy ground movements, or poor general communication that effect timeliness of command and control in reaction to new data. For example i wonder if they have airborne SA radar surveillance capability that can provide real time data on vehicle and rail movements inside ukraine that the US used effectively during the first gulf war.
if russia does not have real time surveillance of ukrainian rail network, sending the few sorties the russians seem willing to fly over ukraine to go looking for trains on ukrainian rail net is probably not a winning proposition.
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That's movement in Ukraine West, would have been interesting to know the direction of the convoy. No russian troops there so it have been flattened by airstrikes or helicopter.
Probably that both sides want to keep the rail systems in order for now. We have seen reinforcement by rail from Russia and Crimea too.
The Ukrainians also claimed that was Russian convoy....
So which one lol
Clearly if it's on that highway (Kiev-Zhitomir highway), a Russian convoy would have been completely lost...or they are already far west of the Dnieper and all maps of Russian advances are nowhere.
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