[glorgau]

Freaking strategic deep thinkers in charge really dug a deep hole thinking they could use Ukraine to degrade the Russians.

[hardspunned]

The fools in the Pentagon chased this guy off and let the idiot rainbow warriors do all the planning.

The Attritional Art of War: Lessons from the Russian War on Ukraine

https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/attritional-art-war-lessons-russian-war-ukraine

[freeandfreezing]

Actually the Russian military capability has been degraded, and it will continue to be degraded as long as they are tied up in a trench war in Ukraine.

Russia needs the added troops just to be able to conquer a few more square kilometers per month. They lost 17,000 soldiers to capture around 25 square kilometers in Avdiivka and hundreds of vehicles.

Russia needs to use more infantry because they can't succeed with armored assaults, they progress by sacrificing their young men.

[grumpygresh]

Putin is an idiot to have started this war. I thought his original justification for the war was the curtailing NATO expansion. Sweden and Finland have joined NATO recently weakening Russia’s northern flank. Russian supply routes to naval and sub bases in Murmansk and Archangel are vulnerable to sabotage and attack through Finland which has a long border with northern Russia. It also bottles up their fleet in the Gulf of Finland putting their enclave in Kaliningrad (Konigsburg) at risk.

[Svartalfiar]

Russia is degraded. Just because the Army is 15% bigger doesn’t make it 15% stronger. They’ve lost a lot of their better, experienced units and replaced it with prisoners and fresh conscripts. That doesn’t make you stronger. Their navy has lost how many ships? With experienced sailors? Experienced pilots? EWACS?

It’ like if you take a big boxer in his prime, and compare him after he’s been retired 20 years, but you stuff his shirt with pillows. He’ll look bigger, but he sure won’t hit you harder.

[gbaker]

Freaking strategic deep thinkers in charge really dug a deep hole thinking they could use Ukraine to degrade the Russians.

Russians are having to use reservists and 1950 vintage tanks now. Yeah they’re a lot stronger. If Russia isn’t careful they could find themselves unable to refine oil soon what with the drone strikes going on. Ukraine is being destroyed and the Russian economy is going downhill. Don’t let those GDP figures fool you.