Yea, and I like your tag line;)
It depletes the AFU quickly. It ended the fledgling China and Indian negotiation efforts. It may lead to a declaration of war by Russia.
Yes, we tend to forget that it's still a Special Military Operation.
What do you make of Alexander's inside dope from his correspondent, about the heads-up about a Ukie operation a couple of months ago?
I wouldn't have a problem allowing the Ukrainians to develop a salient into Russia, myself.
As I've been pointing out - it's 25 miles wide at the BASE.
Park artillery on either side - it's not too difficult to establish fire control over the supply lines.
Plus, I think the Ukrainians have only established control over parts of the western Kursk road net, and certainly not all of it.
So, Russia already wasn’t at war with Ukraine?