Posted on 10/10/2022 8:34:54 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
On Saturday, the Ukrainians hit the Kerch Strait Bridge, which leads from Russia to Crimea, with something—a missile, explosives planted by naval commandos, a truck laden with explosives. No one who knows is saying for sure.
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The tactical questions of how the Ukrainians pulled off this strike and of whether lasting damage has occurred are interesting and important but currently unresolvable publicly. What can, however, be more profitably discussed is what this tells us about where the Russia-Ukraine war is headed.
“Battles are the principal milestones of secular history,” Winston Churchill wrote in his biography of the Duke of Marlborough. The strike on the Kerch Strait Bridge was not a battle, but it was an important contributor to one of the great inflection points of this war—the moment when Russian elites began to understand that they are losing.
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The Kerch Strait Bridge attack, by contrast, inflicted at most a couple of casualties but packed multiple punches. It struck a prime symbol of the project of Russian imperial restoration, an expensive structure designed to link a Crimea reincorporated into Russia with the motherland. It damaged a crucial supply route. It showed that Ukraine could reach deep behind Russian lines to hit, with exquisite precision, a key and extremely well-defended target. It was, above all, a personal as well as a national humiliation: This was Vladimir Putin’s pet construction project, and it was the most unwelcome gift possible on his 70th birthday.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Apparently, that fate he faces will amount to utter failure given the Ukrainian attempted sabotage of the big ass Kerch Bridge resulted in utter failure.....
That ‘How to Blow Up a Big Ass Bridge Properly 101 class’ is still open for enrollment....memo ZelenskyyIdiot kthx.
Memo this to him, as well:
Head of Chechnya Kadyrov urges Ukrainian President Zelensky to flee to the West
https://ria.ru/20221010/kadyrov-1822753212.html?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop
But it certainly was a way for Zelensky to escalate the conflict, which Russia's response is now quite clear....10 cities infrastructure is down - communications and utilities creating blackouts. As well multiple "Bridges" bombed.
Dropping an entire span of a modern bridge isn’t exactly a complete failure.
Of course given the rampant corruption of Russian industry along with the utter incompetence of their ruling class it’s not a big surprise that it collapsed. What’s surprised is that it held up as well as it did.
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You do have a sense of humor.
All really lucky shots given that the Russians just use old moldering unguided missiles that can get out of there launch tubes half of the time and blow up in flight the other half and the surviving shots are all taken out by superior Ukie western air defenses.
I think not...
That ‘How to Blow Up a Huge Ass Bridge Properly 101 class’ is still open for enrollment.
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The embassies of the EU countries received an urgent evacuation order from Kiev.
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Let the stone age begin!
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Bridges are a tougher target than people realize. The all important Kherson bridge sustained half a dozen missile strikes before it was finally put out of service. And it was a much easier target than the Crimea bridge.
But it was that important that they kept hitting it until it was finally cut.
The Crimean bridge is much more important. It should have been cut right out of the gate. The fact that it wasn’t tells us just how difficult a target it is. Both sides know just how important it is, and you can expect it to be hit again and again until it is finally cut. *If* they can.
Can I enroll you in that 101 class too?
You fools, only now do you start to realize the power of the Russian empire. Soon you will be begging for mercy.
Oh lawdy lawd, he desperate! Do what he say!
I certainly wouldn’t credit anything written by a goofball like that.
Where’s that confounded bridge?.......................
Putin is insane, he thinks his bridge is off limits and then hits Ukrainian cities. That is an emotional strike of a madman.
Why don’t you try actually addressing the point I made instead of cackling an irrelevant response like a 3rd grader?
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The Kerch Bridge was cleared and traffic was restored within hours of the bombing, Mr. Globalist. By the way, Klaus Schwab called. He needs his a$$ kissed. Time to warm up your lips.
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