[Bruce Campbells Chin]

WI'd actually put as No.1 on that list that the Russian military has been exposed as completely hollow in terms of equipment, logistics, supplies, and maintenance. Once you get past the modern equipment with which the active Russian army was initially equipped, there was just nothing behind it. The alleged huge reserves of tanks, APC's, and artillery were not maintained, and had degraded over the decades to the point of uselessness. Things like rust, dry rot, water damage, etc. - not to mention theft, cannibalization, and corruption - destroy those reserves. They literally had tanks stored outside in the elements for decades.

So once they started taking heavy losses in that equipment - and the artillery tubes began to fail because of the number of rounds fired through them - they could not be replaced other than in dribs and drabs.

You can't win a modern mechanized war without good logistical and maintenance systems unless you win it fast. And the Russians didn't do that.

Mobilized men without proper equipment are simply cannon fodder in the modern era. And I would imagine that those are the kind of conversations that they're having inside the Kremlin. They're looking at their supply chains, looking at what equipment they have in reserve, and coming to the conclusion that what they are doing now is not sustainable.

And though Ukraine is suffering some of the same things, they're getting greater logistical support from the West, sending damage equipment to other Eastern European countries to be repaired and refitted, etc..

Also unlike Ukraine, Russia has military border concerns other than just this particular war. Ukraine will use every last tank, every last artillery tube, and every last round of ammunition in its possession in this war because it is a war of survival. But Russia can't afford to do the same. It needs to retain some decent troops and equipment in other parts of the country to protect its other strategic national interests.

This war has been a disaster for Russia.

[lump in the melting pot]

Very good points. None, however, will make any impact on FR’s vatnik brigade, who continue to whistle past russia’s graveyard while assuring us (or themselves, more likely) that things will turn around for russia in the winter, or next spring, or when Soros dies, or when some other cope fantasy comes true.

[ops33]

Exactly. Their soldiers are crap, their equipment is crap, and their tactics are crap.