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Ukraine Is Waging a New Kind of War
The Atlantic ^ | September 8, 2022 | Phillips Payson O’Brien

Posted on 09/08/2022 7:50:58 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

Ukrainian officials, defending their country against Russian aggressors, began doing something in July that seemed odd, even counterintuitive: They started speaking loudly and regularly about their plans to liberate Kherson—a key southern city that Russia seized only a week after invading Ukraine on February 24. Indeed, the Ukrainians telegraphed their intentions in a way that the Russians could not mistake. This was like waving a red cape at an angry, incompetent bull. Almost immediately, rumors proliferated that the Russians were racing reinforcements to Kherson to prepare for the Ukrainian attack.

Goading the Russians into doing so seems to have been the Ukrainians’ exact goal. Fighting in Kherson plays to Ukrainian strength far more than to the Russians’. Russian occupiers in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas, where the war had been concentrated from April until July, can operate very close to the Russian border, seem to have solidly functional rail lines, and are currently trying to pressure the Ukrainians from two sides at the tip of the fighting around the town of Siversk. Fighting in Kherson, by contrast, nullifies almost all of Russia’s advantages in the Donbas. The Russians are at the edge of their supply lines, while the Ukrainians can maneuver around them. Kherson is deeper into Ukraine than the Donbas, so Russian aircraft have farther to travel to reach the front lines, and that clearly makes them nervous; they prefer to fly mostly over Russia itself or its ally Belarus. Finally, the entire Russian fighting force in Kherson depends for its supplies on just a small number of bridges that span the wide Dnipro River. In recent weeks, the Ukrainians have attacked those crossings almost nightly, severely hindering Russia from moving supplies to their hard-pressed troops in Kherson.

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The Sun Tzu playbook...
1 posted on 09/08/2022 7:50:58 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

A war on our pocketbook.


2 posted on 09/08/2022 7:52:19 AM PDT by ryderann
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(((YAWN))) Tell Jo Jo the clown or one of his idiots to send ‘em another 40 billion.


3 posted on 09/08/2022 7:53:37 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I always thought a Merry Garland was a Christmas tree decoration.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Deception is integral to war.


4 posted on 09/08/2022 7:54:09 AM PDT by marktwain
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But.. but… what does Moonbat of Alabama have to say about this??


5 posted on 09/08/2022 7:54:27 AM PDT by ScottinVA (To hell with Putin; to hell with Russia)
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Goading the Russians into doing so seems to have been the Ukrainians’ exact goal

Goading Russians is a bit more work than that. If the Russians just lashed out in an agry fashion in response to Ukrainian provocations, Kyiv would have been flattened by strategic bombing long ago.

6 posted on 09/08/2022 7:54:38 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Biden is the one who goaded the Russians.


7 posted on 09/08/2022 7:55:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Timber Rattler

No, we are in a proxy war with Russia.


8 posted on 09/08/2022 7:56:15 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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The only thing new in Ukraines war is their large media propaganda machinery.


9 posted on 09/08/2022 7:58:51 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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Losing kind of war?
What's new about that?
10 posted on 09/08/2022 8:00:21 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: dfwgator

And they lashed out and responded to sanctions on gas and oil by cutting off gas and oil sales. How fascist of them.


11 posted on 09/08/2022 8:01:30 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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The Sun Tzu playbook...

No...just more pap from the left, delivered by a spam-bot.

12 posted on 09/08/2022 8:02:35 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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Hilarious. Their offensive failed, and so now they come out and say we never really wanted to take it we wanted to trick you into protecting it. Aesop‘s fables, fox and the grapes.


13 posted on 09/08/2022 8:08:39 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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“Kyiv would have been flattened by strategic bombing long ago.”

Except we all know that’s not true, because the Russians are afraid to fly over Ukrainian airspace and lose more of their planes to Uke air defense.


14 posted on 09/08/2022 8:09:12 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Exactly. The war they are waging is to help our politicians bankrupt us, while Russia becomes more economically powerful.


15 posted on 09/08/2022 8:10:25 AM PDT by Codeflier (I am just going to assume you are a Democrat if you call me a Putin supporter and ignore you.)
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Ukraine's war strategy is unique and its horrible mistakes that lead to tens of thousands of needless deaths will be a model of what mistakes to avoid in a war.

And, the source is the left-wing website the Atlantic? lol

16 posted on 09/08/2022 8:13:09 AM PDT by Kazan
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Exactly. The war they are waging is to help our politicians bankrupt us, while Russia becomes more economically powerful.

Agree. Add to that the depletion of our military missiles and equipment. It is us being depleted.

17 posted on 09/08/2022 8:13:18 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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China is getting the biggest benefit out of this war.


18 posted on 09/08/2022 8:16:45 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in lVove and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Timber Rattler


19 posted on 09/08/2022 8:16:51 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Ka-ching!


20 posted on 09/08/2022 8:17:45 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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