“As in 1943, any defensive line will be totally mauled be Russian artillery. For pity’s sake, let the Ukes negotiate.”
They actually had good defensive lines, with Avdiivka being the best of them, and likely they COULD have held Russia back, but they decided to shoot their wad in offensive operations, and so now they’re pretty much out of weapons and the Neocons are still trying to figure out how to ramp up production (lesson for the years: If you decide to start a land war with Russia, it’s best to first find out if you can produce weapons).
This is a perfect example of NATO talking the Ukes out on a limb then sawing the limb off by not being able to deliver the moon as was promised. We both knew the BS line we were fed about the Russian Bear being paper tiger was a lie two years ago. Apparently, the rainbow warriors in the pentagon believed it. These idiots never thought through the contingency that the Russians wouldn’t immediately fold and that this might evolve into a modern war of attrition. No 155mm, no air defense missiles (the West is out). The U.S. has doubled its production of 155 in two years. We now produce 28,000 per month. Z, at a minimum, wants 6000 a DAY! It’s the same with air defense missiles. A Uke defensive line will deal with horrific amounts of drone sighted artillery and an uncontested aerial bombing campaign with precision equipped 500, 1000 and 1500 kg ordinance. Russia has millions of these old, now precision, Cold War bombs. We can’t buy, beg, borrow or steal Patriot missiles or counter battery 155mm munitions.
Ukraine did not start this land war, Russia did.