Posted on 09/05/2022 6:44:24 AM PDT by delta7
It won’t happen any time soon, but if I were Ukraine and I’m refusing to negotiate, I would accept the current situation and begin a guerilla war versus this conventional war that appears to be going nowhere.
Try to get Russia to pay a really high price for occupying territory by bleeding them by using a thousand cuts.
Just like in Iraq and Afghanistan, IEDs, Suicide Bombers, targeted assassinations, etc., anything to put the fear of god into Russian Soldiers
Russia never runs out of people. They don’t have much money and they are certainly NOT a big manufacturing economy.
History shows that Russia wins wars through brutal attrition as long as their populace agrees with it. The “war” is not very popular in Russia because few understand the reasoning or see the Ukraine as a threat.
At least the Ukrainians believe they are fighting for their nation and to avenge their dead.
The rich grow wealthier and the poor bleed. I don’t really see an off-ramp in the current framework.
Putin has tied his survival and that of his corruptocrat regime to the conflict. Is he weakening his nation for his ego or did his “yes men” lead him down a primrose path? Is he truly that popular in Russia?
The massive corruption in the Ukraine has grown worse since the conflict began fueled by globalist leaders showering borrowed money on the Ukrainian leaders to continue the conflict. They hate Putin.
The real winner is China.
Your right, thanks to our idiotic leaders the number one threat to the West, China, is benefiting. However, Russia has replaced its European energy customers with Asian customers and is doing just fine.
Offensives launched for political reasons usually end badly. The Kerensky Offensive in 1917 destroyed public support for the Provisional Government leading to the October Revolution.
The problem with this attack is it has no objective other than hoping to talk the US into sending more weapons.
Heck of a way to burn up material and lives.
I am watching. Russia owns half of Ukraine and Europe will probably be shut down and starved of energy this winter.
Yet babbling, globaloid-boosters keep telling us to "watch and see."
That's because his source is a pro-Kremlin blog.
“… The Russians had 25,000 hard pressed, poorly supplied troops with their backs against the Dnieper with the bridges cut.…”
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Cutting the bridges certainly makes resupply more difficult. But what the Ukrainians (and our resident globalist warmongers) don’t seem to understand is that with the Russians controlling both banks of the river RESUPPLY CAN CONTINUE using ferries and barges… and it is.
An offensive without air superiority is doomed to fail. I guess most of the Ukraine’s military leaders missed that class.
If you took the time to read the posts, they are all non western news articles- Moon of Alabama only gathers them. Keep drinking the corrupted western MSM kool aid….didn’t Trumps warning about western fake news teach you anything?
You may be right. Thus far no independent reliable source suggesting that this Ukrainian offensive has had any significant success.
Technically it can, but not at anywhere near the same rate as it would if the bridges were intact. The Russians on the west bank will not be able to sustain the same rate of fire without running out of ammunition.
Yep - love your Russian propaganda - it always good for a laugh - if it came on soft white paper, it would make good butt wipe.
Using boats and barges to ferry supplies across a river is nowhere near as efficient as using railroads or trucks. The Russians may be getting supplies across, but the tonnage moved is significantly less per day. That will hurt Russian combat effectiveness and help the Ukrainians.
Yes, I agree. Where the Ukrainians were stupid was publicizing plans for their offensive months in advance giving the Russians plenty of time to pre-position reinforcements and supplies on the western side of the river. The targeting of the bridges so much in advance also gave the Russians plenty of advance time to build up their alternative river crossing capabilities.
hellEnskyy.
I like it.
A dumber tart you’ll never find - “Barebacking It” Baerbock, Easy German Earth Girl
Shades of the old 1960s joke that the Arabs would fight Israel to the last Egyptian.
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