Posted on 06/03/2025 2:19:07 PM PDT by bimboeruption
Key Points - Russia's lack of large-scale retaliation to recent audacious Ukrainian drone strikes deep within its territory does not signify weakness or fear, but rather a calculated confidence in its ongoing attritional strategy.
-Moscow is reportedly achieving its core, albeit limited, war aims—consolidating control over eastern Ukrainian oblasts, securing the land bridge to Crimea, and ensuring Ukraine's non-NATO, neutralized status—through methodical ground advances and superior industrial output.
-Russia is perceived to be "already winning" this war of exhaustion by fighting "smarter, not harder," and therefore sees no current need for dramatic escalations that could play into Western or Ukrainian hands.
Putin Doesn’t Need to Retaliate Against Drone Strike – He’s Already Winning the Ukraine War As of this writing, the world is still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Following Ukraine’s latest long-range drone and bomber raids deep into Russian territory – including an audacious strike on military infrastructure in Tatarstan and symbolic attacks near Moscow – there has been no large-scale Russian retaliation. No carpet bombing of Kyiv. No massed air campaign. No strategic escalation to match the hype swirling in Western media and Telegram channels alike. And so the question remains: Is Putin holding back? Or is he preparing to go big?
The answer lies neither in the skies over Belgorod nor in the bombastic statements from Kremlin representatives. It lies in the slow, methodical, grinding progress on the ground in Ukraine. That’s where Russia is winning the war – and why it doesn’t need to “go big” in some cinematic show... The West, trained by decades of airpower-centric wars, has become obsessed with spectacle. It expects grand escalations: shock and awe, decapitation strikes, dramatic red lines crossed in real time on cable news. But Russia’s strategy in Ukraine has long been the opposite of dramatic.
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Or Russia has nothing extra.
Yes.
Neither. Putin is simply continuing to degrade Ukraine’s army and equipment while taking buffer land. The Ukraine sideshows are irrelevant.
Happiness is being a Democrat Bolshevik and never having to admit you are wrong. You see Putin sent Russia’s best soldiers to die in the fields of Kyiv because he really only wanted to “consilidate control of the eastern provinces.”
Bottom line is they are brute forcing at great expense, and winning because they have more to throw at it and (at present) dont care about the cost.
“Neither. Putin is simply continuing to degrade Ukraine’s army and equipment while taking buffer land. The Ukraine sideshows are irrelevant.”
Meanwhile, Russia is going broke financing Putin’s two-week war.
“Happiness is being a Democrat Bolshevik and never having to admit you are wrong. You see Putin sent Russia’s best soldiers to die in the fields of Kyiv because he really only wanted to “consilidate control of the eastern provinces.”’
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True happiness is watching Putin and his Russian collaborators shed crocodile tears because Putin started the war and has lost up to a million of his “best soldiers,” along with some ships, aircraft, and a pipeline.
Zelensky, make sure you never agree to stop the conflict from your side!
The retaliation will come when it isn’t expected I would presume.
Putin’s been holding back all along. He hasn’t had to go whole hog. All he had to do was sit back and let Biden’s handlers bankrupt this country, and deplete our weapon’s inventory without having to do much at all.
That's a figure from the Western media, who just got done lying to us about AutoPen Joe Biden and the vaxxes, you neoconned buffoon.
Yep, body counts have always been greatly exaggerated by both sides in every war.
Russia is fighting a measured war because it does not want to have rebuild a bunch of things it destroyed to reach its goals.
Putin has two choices.
Settle for a ceasefire. The war will meet a similar end to the Winter War where the Finns kicked the Soviets' @$$es.
Or during WWI where the Russian Army revolted. We had a hint of that during the Wagner Group revolt two years ago.
Considering they just lost billions in aircraft the other day and billions in armour, and billions in naval craft that aren’t going to be replaced, he should be consider making peace before another 40 bombers are lost on the ground.
We all are prone to the sunk cost fallacy.
The key take: The West should worry not about what Putin might do in response to a drone strike on a refinery or a missile factory. It should worry that he doesn’t need to respond at all.
Of course, he has. For three reasons:
1) The meat grinder approach saves Russian lives.
2) The objective of the Russian military is to destroy the Ukrainian army. Once that's accomplished, the Russians will then take whatever other territory they deem necessary.
3) They are holding back troops in case of a worst case scenario where Russia has to go to war with NATO.
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