I can’t believe people think moving equipment has to be over a bridge. Or anything else for that matter. My gosh there’s boats, helicopters, amphibian and various other means.
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Nor I. However, remember only 5-6 percent of Americans are veterans. Much fewer served in our land forces.
That said, they have no perception or any idea how efficient, massive , and equipped Ivan’s army is. The EU landscape is filled with rivers, hundreds of thousands of bridges…without huge numbers of engineering units and their pontoon bridges, an “ Army” is relegated to defensive operations only, defeat.
NATO has very little in the way of pontoon and river crossing equipment.
Today’s Nato is not the Nato of the 60’s, 70’s. Unlike Russia, the West believes their old European tactics are antiquated - they are mistaken. Vlad’s decades old doctrine of building and maintaining massive artillery, and engineering units is working in defeating Nato’s “ modern” western war doctrine, at least in the EU landscape.
Lastly, the EU is broke….and Vlad is kicking the West’s rear end in the economic theatre.
I have zero military expereince and certainly not a vet. However common sense does come into play ....following patterns....and observing the battlefield as well as (frankly) who is controlling the land. You can get a broad view of who is ahead in this conflict - and it isn’t Ukraine. All their reisisting and pushing has brought nothing but death.
I still haven’t gotten out of my head the video of a Ukraianian soldier all out of breath and sweating, hardly able to talk telling how the soldiers were dropping like flies. ......How much I disdain Zelesnky can’t be defined for putting his people in a loosing battle every single day. Citizens and soldiers alike and the false hope he pounds into their heads.
“Vlad’s decades old doctrine of building and maintaining massive artillery, and engineering units is working in defeating Nato’s “ modern” western war doctrine, “
are you still singing that tune after Putin lost Kherson? And lots of territory in the north-west?