Posted on 10/10/2022 8:34:54 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
On Saturday, the Ukrainians hit the Kerch Strait Bridge, which leads from Russia to Crimea, with something—a missile, explosives planted by naval commandos, a truck laden with explosives. No one who knows is saying for sure.
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The tactical questions of how the Ukrainians pulled off this strike and of whether lasting damage has occurred are interesting and important but currently unresolvable publicly. What can, however, be more profitably discussed is what this tells us about where the Russia-Ukraine war is headed.
“Battles are the principal milestones of secular history,” Winston Churchill wrote in his biography of the Duke of Marlborough. The strike on the Kerch Strait Bridge was not a battle, but it was an important contributor to one of the great inflection points of this war—the moment when Russian elites began to understand that they are losing.
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The Kerch Strait Bridge attack, by contrast, inflicted at most a couple of casualties but packed multiple punches. It struck a prime symbol of the project of Russian imperial restoration, an expensive structure designed to link a Crimea reincorporated into Russia with the motherland. It damaged a crucial supply route. It showed that Ukraine could reach deep behind Russian lines to hit, with exquisite precision, a key and extremely well-defended target. It was, above all, a personal as well as a national humiliation: This was Vladimir Putin’s pet construction project, and it was the most unwelcome gift possible on his 70th birthday.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Reading these comments, I’m having a hard time figuring out who the Nazis are.
Their accuracy must have improved. Before, they were hitting apartment houses, churches and schools.
It seems to me that the Russian attack was more effective than the V1/V2 attacks, in that they managed to take out utilities and communications infrastructure.
Describing Russia’s response as Putin’s “temper tantrum” suggests that he is acting in a childish way and should be treated as if he is a child. That seems unwise because it might lead one to underestimate him. Putin may be many things, but he’s not a child.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!
STOP! OH GOD PLEASE STOP! ROTFL!!!! STOP. OH GOD PLEASE STOP! IT HURTS TO R & L SO MUCH AT THE SAME TIME
I'M BEGGING FOR MERCY! PLEASE MERCY! ROTFLMAO!
FOR THE LOVE OF VLAD, PLEASE STOP! SHOW SOME OF THAT GOOD OLD RUSSIAN MERCY! ROTFL!!!
Whoa, that's better, I finally caught my breath.
Listen JoSixPack you sound totally shit faced.
So while I am able to control myself I want you to tell YLAD that when you start a war that is supposed to end in days but is now headed into its second winter that VLAD has to realize the powerlessness of VLAD's imaginary Russian Empire.
Tell VLAD to heed the advice of Inspector Harold Francis Callahan, aka Dirty Harry, which is A man's GOT to know his limitations..
Oh no I .......ROTFL!!!! STOP.........
Bwahahahaha! Is THAT what you think??
Very informative, thanks!
It will be interesting to see what happens with the train tracks. I doubt that is just a flesh wound...
I had read the tracks were reopened after a “test train” used them. I wonder how they got someone to drive that test train? And how long before Ukraine hits the bridge again, this time taking it fully out of action?
Found this recent article discussing the roadway and train track damage on the Kerch bridges.
https://theconversation.com/crimean-bridge-blast-experts-assess-the-damage-192161
This article discusses the effects of fires on bridges in general.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095756422000435
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