Posted on 09/15/2025 12:46:36 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Taking ground is secondary, incidental at this point. It will become primary later.
“The United States could invade Russia and take the entire country over in a matter of months.”
Of all the species of Boomers, the Dufus Canadianus is the most delusional.
Did you mean to say Germany?
Right because its better to be stuck in a WW1 style war of attrition vs conducting a WW2 blitzkrieg.
First, Russian forces have advanced an average of only 50 meters per day in such areas as Kharkiv, slower than during the Somme offensive in World War I, where French and British forces advanced an average of 80 meters per day. Russian rates of advance have also been significantly slower than during such offensives as Galicia in 1914 (1,580 meters per day), Gorzia in 1916 (500 meters), Belleau Wood in 1918 (410 meters), Leningrad in 1943 (1,000 meters), and Kursk-Oboyan in 1943 (3,220 meters). Even Russia’s rate of advance in parts of Donetsk Oblast, averaging 135 meters per day, has been remarkably slow.
Second, Russia’s seizure of approximately 5,000 square kilometers of territory in Ukraine since January 2024 has been paltry—amounting to less than 1 percent of Ukrainian territory—and has occurred mainly in Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv Oblasts. Russia’s marginal gains are particularly noteworthy compared to its conquest of 120,000 square kilometers during the first five weeks of the war and Ukraine’s recapture of 50,000 square kilometers in the spring of 2022.
Third, Russia has lost substantial quantities of equipment across the land, air, and sea domains, highlighting the sharp matériel toll of its attrition campaign. Since January 2024, for example, Russia has lost roughly 1,149 armored fighting vehicles, 3,098 infantry fighting vehicles, 300 self-propelled artillery, and 1,865 tanks. Even more noteworthy, Russian equipment losses have been significantly higher than Ukrainian losses, varying between a ratio of 5:1 and 2:1 in Ukraine’s favor.
Fourth, Russian fatalities and casualties have been extraordinary. Russia will likely hit the 1 million casualty mark in the summer of 2025—a stunning and grisly milestone. Overall, a high of 250,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine, with over 950,000 total Russian casualties, a sign of Putin’s blatant disregard for his soldiers. To put these numbers into historical perspective, Russia has suffered roughly five times as many fatalities in Ukraine as in all Russian and Soviet wars combined between the end of World War II and the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022. In addition, Russian fatalities in Ukraine (in just over three years) are 15 times larger than the Soviet Union’s decade-long war in Afghanistan and 10 times larger than Russia’s 13 years of war in Chechnya.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-battlefield-woes-ukraine
Reading the thoughts, reasoning, and arguments of those carrying the globalist water here in regards to the situation in Ukraine, doesn’t give one the impression of deep intellect.
I suspect back during Afghanistan if Kellogg were asked if the billions spent on building the Afghan military were well spent, he would have responded that the military was first rate and one of the finest in the region.
Face it... That’s reality... Russia’s military has never been weaker in their entire history.
Yup, because if there is a conventional war, it will be a WW1 style artillery battle. Okay
(Despite all the promises, the Russian advantage in munitions and military equipment production has GROWN since 2022)
Yup, Russians forced to pulling 1960's T62's from storage is winning.
Ukraine possessed the largest, best equipped fighting force in all of Europe with possibly the best defensive positions ever constructed. Wait to see if Europe will wade into this conflict. PDJT has promised that we would not.
Foreign Minister of Poland Radosław Sikorski has said:
“If we provide Ukraine with security guarantees, we say that we can start a war against Russia. And I don’t think it’s convincing that there is trust in it. Anyone who wants to fight with Russia can start it right now. But I don’t see any takers,”
“At this pace, it would take russia 80 more years and the lives of 56 million troops to occupy all of Ukraine. “
Disingenuous tripe.
Those who study war know that aggressor armies suffer terrible casualties...up until the opposing army is broken.
One army or the other will break, and those projections of casualties vs turf will make their proponents look silly.
Best equipped? Ukraine really has no air-force, maybe 16 older F16's. Most of Ukraine's tanks/apc's are older models.
French President Emmanuel Macron said 26 countries were ready to contribute to a peacekeeping mission if the fighting between Ukraine and Russia stops, part of an effort to increase pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate with his Ukrainian counterpart.
“”””Step One in “kicking ass” should be making artillery shells, especially 3 years after the war started.
Instead, all we get is fiascos.”””””
Is that what you think America NATO would bring to the war, more mud caked grunts and artillerymen to sit in trenches and trade artillery shells and rifle fire?
Artillery shells are something we send to the Ukrainians, they are not what we and the other NATO nations would be bringing to the war.
Besides, we and our allies are producing millions now to keep Ukraine supplied, also, if NATO joined Ukraine, artillery’s role would greatly decrease.
In addition the Ukraine has had access to the best military minds in the West and the best ISR capabilities anywhere. They would have had ample aircraft if anyone believed that they would not be immediately destroyed.
Bluster; watch what they do rather than what is said.
“Russia can’t be bluffed by the US/NATO anymore”
Seriously! 😆. Russia doesn’t want to go head to head with the US after watching 50 of our spec ops guys with a little air support massacre 500 Russian mercenaries in Syria. Our guys didn’t even work up a sweat.
Apparently, Putin thinks he is winning, as he shows no sign of wanting to end the fighting. And since only he knows what his real objectives are, while his forces continue their crawl westward, deeper into Ukraine, it would be prudent to assume he is making progress at a cost acceptable to him.
“Yup, Russians forced to pulling 1960’s T62’s from storage is winning.”
USA hasn’t made new hull since the 1990s.
The “new” M1s are refurbs of older tanks.
Like building a retro-rod and claiming it is a new car.
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