Initially believed that the spirited Ukrainians fighting on their own terrain were doing a very credible defense and had a chance to making this a catastrophic quagmire for the Russians. They are still fighting hard and causing real problems for the Russians, militarily, economically and politically. However when that Russian “forty mile column” just north of Kiev just sat there, was never attacked by long range artillery, mortar or sapper teams ( as the NVA and VC did in Vietnam) especially since the Ukrainians know the terrain, came to the conclusion that the Ukrainians are simply not capable of resisting effectively much longer. Try to imagine if such your capital city had a hostile, long column of vehicles, supplies and troops sitting in the open for two days. Are there not any daring imaginative Ukrainian commanders?
I have been hammered several times on different threads, but I will try again. There are two Ukraines, one made up of people who think and talk just as the Russians do. The other is the group of Ukrainians who all speak Ukrainian, who remember every blow of Stalin, and can point to each plot of ground and tell you which family owned it before the Russians came in.
The real Ukrainians ran into the cities, getting weapons and training to defend against the Russians, the Russian supporters stayed home, in the villages along the roads you see the columns in. Putin has most of the die hard Ukrainian supporters either in the cities or running away to other countries. He knows where all his enemies are.
Yeah, I was thinking some snipers sniping at the fuel trucks would have been a pretty big hindrance to the overall war effort, but what do I know?
“Are there not any daring imaginative Ukrainian commanders?”
The Ukranians attacked and destroyed the very front of the column, on a two lane road, thus bringing to a stop the entire column as the wreckage precluded the column from proceeding forward. So for the moment, the column is stalled; the Russians are bringing in reinforcements.