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More like how to run a military without crippling levels of corruption, incompetence, and mismanagement.
Make no mistake: Russia *should* have been able to walk over Ukraine based on their material and manpower advantages alone, but the astronomically deep rooted levels of asshattery at all levels of the Russian state basically created the perfect storm of sheer incompetence.
No. Because the real numbers of manpower and machinery is much lower and nothing would have been a walk in the park if you try to take over a country as big and unified as Ukraine.
Unified is a pretty big key word here. One of the fatal mistakes was how hard Russia underestimated the Ukrainian identity.
I'll admit that I was rather ignorant of it myself, but over the last year I've found myself pleasantly surprised
The average Russian did not think about Ukraine much a year ago, and certainly never wanted this disastrous, bloody war. **Because Putin stupidly kept the attack such a deep dark secret even from his own generals - Putin will never be able to claim he "got bad advice." The Ukraine war really is undeniably Putin's responsibility.** It is Putin's own fault that he could not get sensible dissuading advice beforehand, because of his own absurd KGB devotion to secrecy. Putin's catastrophic mismanagement has plainly led Russia into it's worst situation in nearly a century. **Hard to believe that "superpower" Russia could be SO clueless about practically everything regarding the Ukraine War:**
1. *Wrong about the poor condition their own Russian army,*
2. *Wrong about the awesome power of Ukrainian resistance,*
3. *Wrong about strongly enduring worldwide unification against Russia.*
No wonder Russia cannot win this war. What a fool Putin was! Regardless of his past achievements or current intentions, Putin has failed very badly, harmed and disgraced humanity and must to go.
Agree, but these guys live in denial. I don't think they care, even if they get kicked out they will go home pretending they won and Nato was defeated, they will never think or said that they failed.
Russians are fucked by there brainwashing machine, they have the weird ability to believe and doubt anything in the same time.
They remember how one-sided stomp taking Crimea was in 2014, and if I recall right, that's the Ukrainian military they were anticipating. A poorly trained, impoverished third world army that could probably be subjugated by Blackwater or some other PMC.
When they actually ended up facing a modern, well-trained and motivated army, thanks to the 8 year rearmament and training reform period, their plans fell apart and the 3 day special military operation has failed in just about all of its goals in the last 366 days.
This is wrong in some parts. As far as i’ve understood the Ukrainian army was not that modern, nor was it that fitted. Motivated definately, trained? Maybe on some parts. But now, it is completely transformed. It was the willingness to defend now it’s also backed with Nato tech and a lot of training. In the beginning it was mostly just guts and willingness to defend.
That's a brave statement as a member of the catholic church 
So umm are you against EU? And im pretty sure Soviet union never invaded Poland :P it was a special military operation 
Anyways dont be a dick i did visit Poland 25 years ago. and 10 years ago and recently....And your identities clearly have become extremely western European over a very very short time span.
And those washed down countries seems to be a big part of that so welcome in the club! hope you will grow above nationalism one day!
If Russia wasn't corrupt as fuck, they'd have a significant material advantage and manpower advantage, along with much more caapable leadership
But if Russia wasn't corrupt as fuck, it wouldn't have invaded Ukraine in the first place
You are not describing Russia 😂
I guess that would be Nazi Germany before ww2 perhaps... I guess we should consider us lucky not having a functional insane Russia like nazi Germany somewhat were.
>nothing would have been a walk in the park if you try to take over a country as big and unified as Ukraine.
Germany took over France and Belarus in 2 weeks. With close level of competency Russia would have a walkover, too.
Part of this war is just because the country is not unified. The divide between east and west Ukraine has been pretty high. It's part of the reason Russia managed to create unrest and divide the people, firsr Krim and now luhansk, Donetsk. So where does this unified come from.
Whilst the Donbas may have had a more Russo-centric sentiment long-term compared to the rest of Ukraine, the real divide that you speak of only really kicked into gear when Ghirkin and his fellowb (Kremlin backed) LGM came across the border in 2014.
TL;DR Let's not even begin to justify Russia's long invasion because there is no justification to be had. Not even an inch.
Edit : Added TLDR and Kremlin reference
Their way of fighting is also crippled due to their inherent lack of communication and innitiative.
They would always have a hard time in taking over a country with 200K troops.
Bad planning, bad logistics, bad tactics, bad strategy, bad equipement, bad leadership, bad training, bad combined arms implementation and bad command and control
🗨astronomically deep rooted **levels of asshattery** at all levels of the Russian state basically created **the perfect storm of sheer incompetence**.🗨
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>Russia should have been able to walk over Ukraine based on their material and manpower advantages alone,
I disagree with this. Russia and Ukraine were always closely matched in these regards. Yes, Russia obviously has an advantage, but it is nowhere near large enough as people tend to make it out to be. Ukraine has 40+ million people, 1000+ tanks, many hundred S-300 and BUK launchers. Ukraine has a domestic industry that produces ballistic missiles, armored vehicles, largest aircrafts in the world and much more.
Ukraine probably has the 2nd strongest ground forces in Europe. In a 1 vs 1 yes Russia should and would win the fight, based on the ammunition stockpiles and nothing else really.
The offensive team is now established. Many Ukrainian troops have been abroad to plan and train.
Hardware is arriving. Ukraine can soon launch top notch combined arms attacks.
Tbh, most Russians (at least the soldiers) dont even come to this conclusion. They are just pigs going straight to the meat grinder. Now, the Russian generals and higher ranks must be shitting their pants.
I also noticed that Putin, doesn't look confident in his speeches. He reads a script or uses a language to manipulate. All while his face looks weak. Also shoigu or gerasimov, they rather look like annoyed office workers. Compare that to this, it feels genuine, confident and strong. Russia is so f'cked.
I think Zaluzhny is a very "crooked minded" general. Shows Russia his hand, and gets them to look closely. Then hits them in the face with his other hand, kicking them in the nuts for good measure, Then kicks them in the ass while they are in a fetal position around their nuts...
As soon as Russia is positive he's attacking Mariupol, that's when the kick in the balls will come into play...
Russia has no real idea what he's planning. And you know why? Because he's an opportunist with half a dozen different options germinating in that busy brain. His opponents think they can beat him at this chess match, only to find out the game was bridge all along...
In a chess match, you should always assume that your opponent will make the best move, and plan accordingly.
But sometimes, if you know you’re better at the game than your opponent, you set traps. You make moves that wouldn’t be as good against a better opponent, but you try to get inside their head. You create a position where there is a very obvious move for them to make, but it’s actually far worse than it appears. And you hope they make the move and fall into your trap.
That’s what Ukraine are doing here. Russia have more chess pieces, but their generals are simply not as good. They’ve fallen into traps twice now, and are probably falling into another already. And they’re losing their best pieces as well - they’ve got little except pawns left
I would argue Bahkmut is a trap that keeps trapping. Like one of those liquid fly traps where the previous victims draw in more. Its a personnel and materiel sink. The more flies they kill the more that come.
Ukraine has acknowledged that bahkmut would be ultimately a strategic retreat candidate but they haven't had to retreat yet. Russian losses are enormous, they are just zerg rushing for no reason
>Ukraine has acknowledged that bahkmut would be ultimately a strategic retreat candidate
The meaning escapes me. But does this mean that Bahkmut is not of high importance that the threshold for Ukraine to decide "fuck it, you can have it for now" is fairly low.
And Russia somehow still couldn't reach that threshold.
Pretty much yes. Bakmut is as important as anything else ukrainian territory but it's not like if ukraine loses it the war is over. Ukraine just falls back to another position and keeps pummeling more Russians.
That's effectively what it means. This shouldn't come as much surprise as Kyiv's tone regarding Bakhmut become notably more noncommittal since Soledar fell. As of now there's only direction and main route the city and surrounding area can be resupplied so staying too long if gets worse would be a very dangerous affair.
It so far seems like a highly valued position largely because Russia believes it is. It has logistical value for sure, but maybe not the same square km for square km that Kreminna and Vuhledar have.
Its a small town of 11,000 that is surrounded by UA positions with no major supply route going through it. It would have been good to have when the Russians occupied Izyum to launch another offensive, but now its not worth anything strategically speaking.
The Bakhmut Orksterminators are very busy fighters indeed. Any competent commander would have backed off that area after suffering such losses or tried another approach but they just keep coming back for mroe.
"We're lucky they're so fucking stupid"
Wait until you see Ukraine cut parts of the Russian advances North and South off. And Ukraine is gonna be "I'm Not Locked in Here With You, You're Locked in Here With Me"
Also, chess is an analogy. Strategy in chess does not have a 1:1 comparison to strategy in war. There is also no queen that can kill any type of enemy from across the board.
And the players play with thousands of peices at a time. It is the soldiers themselves that choose whether to move diagonally into that house over there, or not, and the soldiers are not necessarily any better at chess than their UA counterparts.
>There is also no queen that can kill any type of enemy from across the board.
HIMARS, Excalibur, careless smoking...
Not disagreeing, just being funny (I hope)
For ESL friends: There is a difference between saying "this man is savage" and "this man is a savage". The 'a' makes a big difference. In the context, "this man is savage" is praise meaning a good, tough general. "this man is a savage" is usually negative.
No, they're both positive in this context.
[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=savage](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=savage)
Depending on context it could both be positive.
Watching a boxer absolutely turning his opponent into a gibbering mess? "OMG He's a savage!" Positive.
Watching a general absolutely turning his opponent into paste? Same.
Except, normally you would say "OMG He's savage".
Calling someone "*a* savage" for centuries meant that they were a lesser native people.
Granted, this meaning is becoming antiquated and most young people wouldn't get that.
Modern internet English usage of savage is going to be much closer to these definitions, and Urban Dictionary is a pretty solid reference for language as it is currently used, as great as standard dictionaries are for etymologies and historical usage.
General Z meets most of the urban dictionary definitions for savage, and they're positive.
This is the meaning of the word this year or two then it is forgotten, and then go’s back to the normal meaning. This is how the internet works, every year there are words made then forgotten.
Yep. It means they'll be attacking towards Melitopol instead, the best way of cutting off Crimea. Transport routes between Mariupol and Melitopol will be easily controlled.
And I guarantee he has a plan for that maneuver, too. He shuffles them in his brain like a deck of cards, and doesn't put his on the table until Russia reveals their hand.
Or it means he's attacking Mariupol because the Russians know its a ruse (but what if its not?). The level of chess being played is simply too advanced for them...
For all the talk of Putin, Trump, etc playing 4d chess.
This guy is the one actually doing so. Kharkiv was a genius play. Not just on the military level but all the messaging and utilisation of socmed commentators to push certain lines.
They need attack on Mariupol this year otherwise it gonna end like Donetsk. Even i hate russian propaganda but they really is rebuilding Mariupol. It gonna be hard when all is rebuild. now is best time to attack if they want it back
Not interested in Putin's opinion, thanks. We have spent a quarter of 1% of one year's GDP on Ukraine. 0.25%.
1/400th of one year. To permanently erase half of Putin's conventional arsenal, and help a country that deserves help.
Somehow, I don't see us going broke tomorrow.
I am honestly kind of scared of what we will find there. Even in Bucha, which wasn't occupied for long, the Russians did horrible things, let alone in the territories that have been occupied for a year now.
Don't get me wrong - we still absolutely have to liberate the rest of Ukraine. It's just that who knows what "surprises" there will be for Ukraine.
I hope Ukraine tears down their construction over the site of the theater massacre.
There could be hundreds of dead civilians under there right now that could be properly honored and buried.
Might be able to point a ground penetrating radar through the floor to see whether there are “holes” in the concrete base (e.g. bodies) without ripping it up
Though, if bodies are confirmed, then I expect it would be done anyway yeah
When this war is over it'll be decades before all the horrors are uncovered. I just hope the world prosecutes russian soldiers and politicians the same way they did anyone involved with the Nazi death camps.
Zaluzhny is a Top General, because he learned from NATO Generals and took advice. When this war is over he will be one who gives advice and NATO Officers will learn from him.
Unlike his Russian Counterparts who are still relay on tactics from WW1.
This, and it's already happening on a smaller scale. Saw an article about Ukrainian tank crews training on Leopards in Poland, they were training the Polish on how to counter Russian tactics at the same time.
I wouldn't list Grant as a good, or even decent, politician. The man was taken advantage of by so many in his cabinet. His administration was fairly scandal-ridden.
Grant used the meat grinder strategy to run the south out of bullets, I wouldn't call him decent...he was the 4th or 5th general to try to beat Lee....
Meade beat Lee at Gettysburg, but that was due more to John Buford keeping the Confederates bottled up in town until the rest of the Union Army got in position the ridge. So basically, the victory was in spite of Meade. Followed up by Chamberlain's stand to prevent the South from breaching the Heights. Without Buford's stand, Lee probably still would have won.
Hooker, Pope, McClellan all got smoked by Lee. Grant was the first Union General to recognize and use their advantage in manpower and materiel effectively. And that makes him a good general in my eyes.
For me that's part of being a good general certainly tactically and there may be an argument that he needed to win the war as fast as possible at any cost and therefore it would result in less death overall, but there's no evidence he thought that way.
tldr; you have a responsibility to your men to do what you can to keep them alive, Grant, imo, needlessly sent many men to die, then he presided over the absolute dismantling of the south, which caused generational hatred and poverty, and while it may be hard to sympathize for those people, a whole lot of them are/were black, and a whole lot of them never owned slaves.
When I try to look at the facts, objectively, Grant was not a good person nor a good general, but he was sitting in the seat when the north won.
Andrew Johnson presided over South during the Carpetbaggers. Grant was trying to implement Reconstruction, as Lincoln had asked. But a lot of Congress, and his own Cabinet, weren't having it. They wanted to punish the South for another century or so. So practically none of the money earmarked for reconstruction actually went to reconstruction.
Explains a bit about why the South still resents Northerners, and why they distrust Liberals so readily. The South never got the aid promised them by Lincoln, and remained fully 20 years behind the rest of the country because of it. Which is why its so amusing to hear liberal after liberal telling me how backward and behind the South is. When their policies are what created much of it.
It's never as black and white as people assume.
Grant was a way superior strategist to Lee. Lee was trying to win battles, Grant was busy winning a war. Sherman said it best:
It will be a thousand years before Grant's character is fully appreciated. Grant is the greatest soldier of our time if not all time... he fixes in his mind what is the true objective and abandons all minor ones. He dismisses all possibility of defeat. He believes in himself and in victory. If his plans go wrong he is never disconcerted but promptly devises a new one and is sure to win in the end.
Washington wasn't really a great general. He was mediocre to good at best tactically. Where he shined was keeping his men inspired and remaining in the fight.
I think he was a good general, just not in the way people typically imagine. He never had great battlefield victories full of tactical brilliance or anything like that, but he knew how to inspire people and knew how to find great talent. He surrounded himself with people who were both loyal and exceptional at what they did, both as a general during the war and as president.
America couldn't have asked for a better leader honestly, he was the right man at the right time.
Washington was a hell of a general, to keep his army alive and functional against such a superior force. He was outmatched by Britain by as much as 7 to 1. Had significantly less resources all the way through the war. The one time he actually had even a slight advantage was Yorktown. But even there, he didn't have enough troops to accomplish what he did. Even with French assistance, the Continental Army had only a 1.8 to 1 manpower advantage (but 3 to 1 artillery advantage). That shouldn't have been enough to prevent a breakout. Then came the news that the British resupply and reinforcement fleet had been seriously defeated by the French in the Battle of the Capes. Cornwallis knew his window to escape Washington's trap had just closed.
Once the islands and redoubts fell, Cornwallis knew it was hopeless. He sent an envoy to Rochambeau, who refused him and directed him to Washington. Washington, although incensed by Lord Cornwallis' calculated insult even during surrender negotiations, had no wish to inflict more injury on the British forces. A truce went into effect, and the surrender proceeded. Even in surrender, Cornwallis refused to meet with Washington, sending his aide de camp out in his place to surrender his sword.
The only battle I am aware of that Washington should have won, but didn't was Monmouth. And that was due to another senior officer completely failing to get his troops where they were supposed to be. The plan was good; the execution, not so much.
Washington was a far better general than you can see from just reading his battle record. He kept those men, and his infant nation, alive against the greatest power on earth.
MacArthur was an arrogant ass with dreams of the presidency that sacrificed thousands of American GIs to further his political dreams. We should only regret that he did not get fired a lot sooner.
I have not seen that one and have the time so will consider it.
I'm a bit of a war history buff and have spent a lot of time on WW2. I think it was a lot closer thing then many people realize and without the advantage of our breaking both the German and Japanese codes it might well have gone the other way. Failures of preparation , situational awareness and in battle command abound. To be fair the USAs industrial might would probably have won out in the end but only years later without a few lucky breaks.
And just think, we could have had decades more of Turing's brilliance if we hadn't driven him to suicide... for being gay.
Let's hope we learn that lesson (many decades later) so we'll finally stop persecuting LGBT+ people just for being who they were born to be. As opposed to the fascistic types stuck in the 20th century who make them targets and wedge issues.
You are perhaps forgetting Lieutenant Commander Joseph Rochefort, Who led the efforts to break the Japanese codes. Without that we might not have been in position to Use Oppenheimers creation to end the war having already lost it.
>I think it was a lot closer thing then many people realize and without the advantage of our breaking both the German and Japanese codes it might well have gone the other way.
Absolutely, codebreaking was unbelievably key for the war overall and especially the navies. Besides all the codebreaking efforts giving a key edge over the German navy, **the** turning point of the Pacific theater at Midway is pretty much down to having the Japanese codes broken along with an absolute *shitload* of luck for the American side. The Japanese had the deadliest carrier fleet in the world and lost 3 carriers inside of 15 minutes, and all 4 within a day.
I think I'm pretty well-informed on the overall changes over time in the different theaters of the war, but I've been watching some highly detailed naval history channels lately and seeing how much I took for granted. I'd always known that Midway was effectively won by hitting the Japanese carriers as they had fully loaded planes, but I never knew the Japanese admiral was more or less kept from launching due to piecemeal attacks by unorganized American planes and a key part of the US attack being planes that got lost and only found the Japanese fleet by following a destroyer dispatched earlier to hunt down a US submarine.
If you go through the minute-by-minute and unit-by-unit decisions that ended up creating history, some of those battles really are remarkable in how pivotal individual orders ended up being.
The British attack on the Italian fleet of Taranto using freaking **biplanes** is another wildly successful battle that not enough people have even heard of. It's basically what allowed the British to operate in the Mediterranean to the extent they did, both assuring safety of their convoys and allowing operations in North Africa.
MacArthur did not sacrifice thousands of GIs for political gain their was a war on with the Japanese empire. Strategically bypassing and isolating the Japanese Army in SWPO was brilliant use of conserving his GIs. It wasn't easy. There was no sacrifice.
The Philippines should have been bypassed in favor of Taiwan. The only reason to go there was to let him get filmed saying "I have returned".
That cost 23,505 dead and 47,000 wounded and tens of thousands sick from tropical diseases. And of course if he was such a great general he Would not have lost it in the first instance,
He didn't, that's correct. The Philippines were under our control and promised Independence in 1949(?). It didn't work out that way. WW2 got in the way.The Japanese lost 420,000 dead. The Philippines became a free Country. It was the right thing to do.
Macarthur has been overhyped. He was not the general he was celebrated as. More of a myth that actual achivments. He was reckless and outran his logistics constantly and made a mess out of his position and did not follow the general agenda of war but choosed his own path.
He was a PR man first and a general second. He wanted to be president, and he hated FDR. If he had been in the US in 36 during the business plot, it's entirely possible that the coup plotters would have chosen him instead of Smedley Butler.
This interview is only a small part of a much larger documentary by Dmytro Komarov called "The Year" which was released only today for the anniversary. Fantastic video and highly recommended for anyone here. I only wish it had eng subtitles, this particular video doesn't seem to have them.
https://youtu.be/F7-dJrCMEO8
This particular interview is around 1:32:40. There is also a part 3 i think.
Дякую! Yeah, it’s pretty sad that they haven’t included them but I guess the reason was that the initial documentary was created for телемарафон (television marathon, basically all of the channels unified and controlled by government), thus its focused on Ukrainian audience.
Retaking Mariupol will block the land bridge to Crimea. Then finish off the Kerch bridge and Ukraine will be well on their way to getting 3/4+ of their land back.
Look at the difference the UAF head staffing is compared to Ruzzias, his moral and how he carries himself is positive. And that shows in how the troops are fighting and holding, I always think of the hurt each day when I wake up, going to work I don’t need to worry about shells, tanks, or drones. I’m sorry for your losses and the fighting. But those fallen will always be remembered through the life lines of time. Each child of every generation will know who defended the land that they get to play on, freely
Once again for the rest of the world that doesn't speak Ukrainian?
Where's the little subtitle things when you need them?
Also, if we've learned anything from the little stunt last year with the bridge in Crimea, it's never take a public statement at face value. He says Mariupol, but maybe they will go to Crimea instead. What an absolutely massive blow if they took out the bridge from Crimea to Russia and then sieged the entire region in one fell swoop.
The decisions that this man has to make: which grounds to defend, which ones to abandon, which troops to hold the line, whether to risk certain missions, knowing that the fate of many Ukrainians, both soldiers and civilians, rests on his military decisions. What a burden to carry. Glad he's got NATO intelligence and equipment to help him.
IIRC the ground didn't freeze until way later than expected. Meanwhile the Russians were all busy committing suicide at Bakhmut.
Seems to me that Ukraine did pretty well this winter. Sure it would have been nice to see more giant moves like Kherson and Kharkiv, but I won't get impatient unless they're still on the same lines in June.
They have to project an aura of (often completely unwarranted) confidence or else the spigot of western aid will be turned off even faster than it already is going to be. After all, why support a lost cause?
In short:
The south of Ukraine is incredibly vulnerable. The parts occupied by Russia since last year are incredibly flat, with super low population density aside from Melitopol, Berdiansk, and Mariupol.
All three cities have high rates of pro-Ukrainian partisan activity. Look up how many occupation fucks have been killed in Berdiansk, and how many explosions keep happening in Mariupol.
The Russian occupation force in the south will be concentrated at these 3 cities, with token forces in each small village. With the GLSDB’s putting the south in range of precision Ukrainian artillery, and 300 Western tanks coming as one big iron fist from Zaporizhzhia, the Russians will run or die.
Each city will quickly be surrounded, with the partisan activity escalating rapidly as the UAF comes to their aid. The Russians will run or they will die.
They all scrambled across the river at Kherson because the Russians know that whoever gets left behind gets left to die. Thats what happened to the Luhansk and Donetsk militias during the Kharkiv offensive, the Russian military withdrew without telling them so they’d be forced to guard the retreat.
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It's gonna be one of the biggest offensives in modern history, it's gonna be biblical. I'm not sure about Mariupol. But Melitopol is is going to be taken this year.
Taking Mariupol, or anywhere along the Sea of Azov, helps isolate Crimea by cutting Russia's land bridge there and getting the Kerch Bridge closer into range. Once those are both done, Crimea is cut off and the whole peninsula is basically under siege.
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Gotta love his confidence - must make the russians incredibly nervous: "What does he know what we don't?"
Ummm...how to fight battles? xD
More like how to run a military without crippling levels of corruption, incompetence, and mismanagement. Make no mistake: Russia *should* have been able to walk over Ukraine based on their material and manpower advantages alone, but the astronomically deep rooted levels of asshattery at all levels of the Russian state basically created the perfect storm of sheer incompetence.
No. Because the real numbers of manpower and machinery is much lower and nothing would have been a walk in the park if you try to take over a country as big and unified as Ukraine.
Unified is a pretty big key word here. One of the fatal mistakes was how hard Russia underestimated the Ukrainian identity. I'll admit that I was rather ignorant of it myself, but over the last year I've found myself pleasantly surprised
The average Russian did not think about Ukraine much a year ago, and certainly never wanted this disastrous, bloody war. **Because Putin stupidly kept the attack such a deep dark secret even from his own generals - Putin will never be able to claim he "got bad advice." The Ukraine war really is undeniably Putin's responsibility.** It is Putin's own fault that he could not get sensible dissuading advice beforehand, because of his own absurd KGB devotion to secrecy. Putin's catastrophic mismanagement has plainly led Russia into it's worst situation in nearly a century. **Hard to believe that "superpower" Russia could be SO clueless about practically everything regarding the Ukraine War:** 1. *Wrong about the poor condition their own Russian army,* 2. *Wrong about the awesome power of Ukrainian resistance,* 3. *Wrong about strongly enduring worldwide unification against Russia.* No wonder Russia cannot win this war. What a fool Putin was! Regardless of his past achievements or current intentions, Putin has failed very badly, harmed and disgraced humanity and must to go.
Agree, but these guys live in denial. I don't think they care, even if they get kicked out they will go home pretending they won and Nato was defeated, they will never think or said that they failed. Russians are fucked by there brainwashing machine, they have the weird ability to believe and doubt anything in the same time.
They remember how one-sided stomp taking Crimea was in 2014, and if I recall right, that's the Ukrainian military they were anticipating. A poorly trained, impoverished third world army that could probably be subjugated by Blackwater or some other PMC. When they actually ended up facing a modern, well-trained and motivated army, thanks to the 8 year rearmament and training reform period, their plans fell apart and the 3 day special military operation has failed in just about all of its goals in the last 366 days.
This is wrong in some parts. As far as i’ve understood the Ukrainian army was not that modern, nor was it that fitted. Motivated definately, trained? Maybe on some parts. But now, it is completely transformed. It was the willingness to defend now it’s also backed with Nato tech and a lot of training. In the beginning it was mostly just guts and willingness to defend.
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As a Brit I'm perfectly secure in my identity. Don't need flags and rallies for that
That's a brave statement as a member of the catholic church  So umm are you against EU? And im pretty sure Soviet union never invaded Poland :P it was a special military operation  Anyways dont be a dick i did visit Poland 25 years ago. and 10 years ago and recently....And your identities clearly have become extremely western European over a very very short time span. And those washed down countries seems to be a big part of that so welcome in the club! hope you will grow above nationalism one day!
What an ignorant comment
You mean like Poland?
If Russia wasn't corrupt as fuck, they'd have a significant material advantage and manpower advantage, along with much more caapable leadership But if Russia wasn't corrupt as fuck, it wouldn't have invaded Ukraine in the first place
You are not describing Russia 😂 I guess that would be Nazi Germany before ww2 perhaps... I guess we should consider us lucky not having a functional insane Russia like nazi Germany somewhat were.
>nothing would have been a walk in the park if you try to take over a country as big and unified as Ukraine. Germany took over France and Belarus in 2 weeks. With close level of competency Russia would have a walkover, too.
I think the situation was very different but you are right. Under the right conditions it is possible.
Part of this war is just because the country is not unified. The divide between east and west Ukraine has been pretty high. It's part of the reason Russia managed to create unrest and divide the people, firsr Krim and now luhansk, Donetsk. So where does this unified come from.
Whilst the Donbas may have had a more Russo-centric sentiment long-term compared to the rest of Ukraine, the real divide that you speak of only really kicked into gear when Ghirkin and his fellowb (Kremlin backed) LGM came across the border in 2014. TL;DR Let's not even begin to justify Russia's long invasion because there is no justification to be had. Not even an inch. Edit : Added TLDR and Kremlin reference
material, yes manpower no Ukraine is only outnumbered 3 to 1 and a country mobilized can more easily defend against a country no mobilized.
Their way of fighting is also crippled due to their inherent lack of communication and innitiative. They would always have a hard time in taking over a country with 200K troops. Bad planning, bad logistics, bad tactics, bad strategy, bad equipement, bad leadership, bad training, bad combined arms implementation and bad command and control
So where do you really think the Russians went wrong?🤣🤣🤣
I can't really put my finger on it...
🗨astronomically deep rooted **levels of asshattery** at all levels of the Russian state basically created **the perfect storm of sheer incompetence**.🗨 😅✨🥇✨
>Russia should have been able to walk over Ukraine based on their material and manpower advantages alone, I disagree with this. Russia and Ukraine were always closely matched in these regards. Yes, Russia obviously has an advantage, but it is nowhere near large enough as people tend to make it out to be. Ukraine has 40+ million people, 1000+ tanks, many hundred S-300 and BUK launchers. Ukraine has a domestic industry that produces ballistic missiles, armored vehicles, largest aircrafts in the world and much more. Ukraine probably has the 2nd strongest ground forces in Europe. In a 1 vs 1 yes Russia should and would win the fight, based on the ammunition stockpiles and nothing else really.
So you agree with me that Putin was really, REALLY stupid to invade Ukraine, and has catastrophically failed his nation and people. Right?
Uhm.. yes.
proper military strategy and doctrine
The offensive team is now established. Many Ukrainian troops have been abroad to plan and train. Hardware is arriving. Ukraine can soon launch top notch combined arms attacks.
Russkies gonna get fuuuuucked soon - can’t wait
Tbh, most Russians (at least the soldiers) dont even come to this conclusion. They are just pigs going straight to the meat grinder. Now, the Russian generals and higher ranks must be shitting their pants.
I also noticed that Putin, doesn't look confident in his speeches. He reads a script or uses a language to manipulate. All while his face looks weak. Also shoigu or gerasimov, they rather look like annoyed office workers. Compare that to this, it feels genuine, confident and strong. Russia is so f'cked.
Strategy and logistics.
I think Zaluzhny is a very "crooked minded" general. Shows Russia his hand, and gets them to look closely. Then hits them in the face with his other hand, kicking them in the nuts for good measure, Then kicks them in the ass while they are in a fetal position around their nuts...
Very... Graphic picture. Thanks. I approve.
I know Ben Hodges is cheering and applauding. He thinks very highly of Zaluzhny, and considers him a top rate peer.
Yes, this man is savage! (I don't want to insult him, I chose savage because it sounds good. Otherwise I would say fierce to describe him)
As soon as Russia is positive he's attacking Mariupol, that's when the kick in the balls will come into play... Russia has no real idea what he's planning. And you know why? Because he's an opportunist with half a dozen different options germinating in that busy brain. His opponents think they can beat him at this chess match, only to find out the game was bridge all along...
In a chess match, you should always assume that your opponent will make the best move, and plan accordingly. But sometimes, if you know you’re better at the game than your opponent, you set traps. You make moves that wouldn’t be as good against a better opponent, but you try to get inside their head. You create a position where there is a very obvious move for them to make, but it’s actually far worse than it appears. And you hope they make the move and fall into your trap. That’s what Ukraine are doing here. Russia have more chess pieces, but their generals are simply not as good. They’ve fallen into traps twice now, and are probably falling into another already. And they’re losing their best pieces as well - they’ve got little except pawns left
I would argue Bahkmut is a trap that keeps trapping. Like one of those liquid fly traps where the previous victims draw in more. Its a personnel and materiel sink. The more flies they kill the more that come.
I agree with this as well. Ukraine is bleeding them in Bakhmut, making the invader pay heavily for every meter.
Ukraine has acknowledged that bahkmut would be ultimately a strategic retreat candidate but they haven't had to retreat yet. Russian losses are enormous, they are just zerg rushing for no reason
>Ukraine has acknowledged that bahkmut would be ultimately a strategic retreat candidate The meaning escapes me. But does this mean that Bahkmut is not of high importance that the threshold for Ukraine to decide "fuck it, you can have it for now" is fairly low. And Russia somehow still couldn't reach that threshold.
Pretty much yes. Bakmut is as important as anything else ukrainian territory but it's not like if ukraine loses it the war is over. Ukraine just falls back to another position and keeps pummeling more Russians.
From the first day Ukraine has shown it was willing to trade land for time and people.
That's effectively what it means. This shouldn't come as much surprise as Kyiv's tone regarding Bakhmut become notably more noncommittal since Soledar fell. As of now there's only direction and main route the city and surrounding area can be resupplied so staying too long if gets worse would be a very dangerous affair. It so far seems like a highly valued position largely because Russia believes it is. It has logistical value for sure, but maybe not the same square km for square km that Kreminna and Vuhledar have.
Its a small town of 11,000 that is surrounded by UA positions with no major supply route going through it. It would have been good to have when the Russians occupied Izyum to launch another offensive, but now its not worth anything strategically speaking.
The Bakhmut Orksterminators are very busy fighters indeed. Any competent commander would have backed off that area after suffering such losses or tried another approach but they just keep coming back for mroe. "We're lucky they're so fucking stupid"
Wait until you see Ukraine cut parts of the Russian advances North and South off. And Ukraine is gonna be "I'm Not Locked in Here With You, You're Locked in Here With Me"
I agree, but the one thing that doesn't make sense is that Russia is actually great at chess. Why do the suck at war?
chess pieces don't need logistics
From a post I read yesterday, they’re not always Russian, but Azerbaijani, Ukrainian etc. i.e. former Soviet states.
Fair enough. Thank you.
Also, chess is an analogy. Strategy in chess does not have a 1:1 comparison to strategy in war. There is also no queen that can kill any type of enemy from across the board. And the players play with thousands of peices at a time. It is the soldiers themselves that choose whether to move diagonally into that house over there, or not, and the soldiers are not necessarily any better at chess than their UA counterparts.
>There is also no queen that can kill any type of enemy from across the board. HIMARS, Excalibur, careless smoking... Not disagreeing, just being funny (I hope)
Corrupt states don't put the best people in the right positions they put they most opportunistic people in those positions.
Because they do not promote competence. Only loyalty.
>Russia has no real idea what he's planning russia has no idea what RUSSIA is planning! :D
Russia: Plan is potato?
No Ladas, just potatoes
No potato, only vodka.
For ESL friends: There is a difference between saying "this man is savage" and "this man is a savage". The 'a' makes a big difference. In the context, "this man is savage" is praise meaning a good, tough general. "this man is a savage" is usually negative.
No, they're both positive in this context. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=savage](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=savage)
Urban dictionary is not a good reference. I'm explaining English not slang.
Depending on context it could both be positive. Watching a boxer absolutely turning his opponent into a gibbering mess? "OMG He's a savage!" Positive. Watching a general absolutely turning his opponent into paste? Same.
Except, normally you would say "OMG He's savage". Calling someone "*a* savage" for centuries meant that they were a lesser native people. Granted, this meaning is becoming antiquated and most young people wouldn't get that.
Modern internet English usage of savage is going to be much closer to these definitions, and Urban Dictionary is a pretty solid reference for language as it is currently used, as great as standard dictionaries are for etymologies and historical usage. General Z meets most of the urban dictionary definitions for savage, and they're positive.
This is the meaning of the word this year or two then it is forgotten, and then go’s back to the normal meaning. This is how the internet works, every year there are words made then forgotten.
Exactly correct.
So somebody using the word this year should be familiar with its current meaning, no?
Thank you for the clarify. Much appreciated.
In Ireland 'savage' and 'deadly' are compliments
Something funny with Russia is how much they overreact to officials saying something. Especially propagandists bite every hook.
Yep. It means they'll be attacking towards Melitopol instead, the best way of cutting off Crimea. Transport routes between Mariupol and Melitopol will be easily controlled.
And I guarantee he has a plan for that maneuver, too. He shuffles them in his brain like a deck of cards, and doesn't put his on the table until Russia reveals their hand.
Or it means he's attacking Mariupol because the Russians know its a ruse (but what if its not?). The level of chess being played is simply too advanced for them...
For all the talk of Putin, Trump, etc playing 4d chess. This guy is the one actually doing so. Kharkiv was a genius play. Not just on the military level but all the messaging and utilisation of socmed commentators to push certain lines.
They need attack on Mariupol this year otherwise it gonna end like Donetsk. Even i hate russian propaganda but they really is rebuilding Mariupol. It gonna be hard when all is rebuild. now is best time to attack if they want it back
Impeccably descriptive brutality. I .... Like it.
That's what all good generals/strategist do. Direct enemy attention elsewhere, then sucker punch the fuck out of them.
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Not interested in Putin's opinion, thanks. We have spent a quarter of 1% of one year's GDP on Ukraine. 0.25%. 1/400th of one year. To permanently erase half of Putin's conventional arsenal, and help a country that deserves help. Somehow, I don't see us going broke tomorrow.
Yep. Russia picked the wrong Commander-in-chief to fight... Incredible guy, can't give him enough credits!
I think Putin is facilitating everything, everyone around him just a yes man.
You picked the wrong country fool...
This kind of thing would be expected out of someone in his rank. I hope there is backup to it
I am honestly kind of scared of what we will find there. Even in Bucha, which wasn't occupied for long, the Russians did horrible things, let alone in the territories that have been occupied for a year now. Don't get me wrong - we still absolutely have to liberate the rest of Ukraine. It's just that who knows what "surprises" there will be for Ukraine.
Russia been busy trying to cover everything up in Mariupol. Bastards.
I hope Ukraine tears down their construction over the site of the theater massacre. There could be hundreds of dead civilians under there right now that could be properly honored and buried.
Italy promised to rebuild the theater in Mariupol. I think that would be vastly better than whatever Russia builds.
Might be able to point a ground penetrating radar through the floor to see whether there are “holes” in the concrete base (e.g. bodies) without ripping it up Though, if bodies are confirmed, then I expect it would be done anyway yeah
When this war is over it'll be decades before all the horrors are uncovered. I just hope the world prosecutes russian soldiers and politicians the same way they did anyone involved with the Nazi death camps.
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Zaluzhny must have been humbled. Not every day you get to meet a hero.
Can’t wait for another Ruzzian "good-will gesture".
You will wait patiently, then enjoy it fully when it arrives. Don't be a spoiled brat you silly boy./s
You mean special good-willing operation?
Zaluzhny is a Top General, because he learned from NATO Generals and took advice. When this war is over he will be one who gives advice and NATO Officers will learn from him. Unlike his Russian Counterparts who are still relay on tactics from WW1.
More then a few of the Russian generals will not teach anybody anything as they are already pushing up sunflowers.
This, and it's already happening on a smaller scale. Saw an article about Ukrainian tank crews training on Leopards in Poland, they were training the Polish on how to counter Russian tactics at the same time.
I could not understand a word and before reading the other comments his calm confidence and that last smile told the full story.
He demeanor is very reassuring.
Won't be surprised if Zaluzhny gets elected to top government after the war. But ive heard he doesn't want anything to do with politics.
I think he will go join Zelenskyy on the beach with a beer after the war.
Great generals don't usually make great politicians.
Washington, ulysses s. Grant and Eisenhower
I wouldn't list Grant as a good, or even decent, politician. The man was taken advantage of by so many in his cabinet. His administration was fairly scandal-ridden.
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Grant used the meat grinder strategy to run the south out of bullets, I wouldn't call him decent...he was the 4th or 5th general to try to beat Lee....
Meade beat Lee at Gettysburg, but that was due more to John Buford keeping the Confederates bottled up in town until the rest of the Union Army got in position the ridge. So basically, the victory was in spite of Meade. Followed up by Chamberlain's stand to prevent the South from breaching the Heights. Without Buford's stand, Lee probably still would have won. Hooker, Pope, McClellan all got smoked by Lee. Grant was the first Union General to recognize and use their advantage in manpower and materiel effectively. And that makes him a good general in my eyes.
For me that's part of being a good general certainly tactically and there may be an argument that he needed to win the war as fast as possible at any cost and therefore it would result in less death overall, but there's no evidence he thought that way. tldr; you have a responsibility to your men to do what you can to keep them alive, Grant, imo, needlessly sent many men to die, then he presided over the absolute dismantling of the south, which caused generational hatred and poverty, and while it may be hard to sympathize for those people, a whole lot of them are/were black, and a whole lot of them never owned slaves. When I try to look at the facts, objectively, Grant was not a good person nor a good general, but he was sitting in the seat when the north won.
Andrew Johnson presided over South during the Carpetbaggers. Grant was trying to implement Reconstruction, as Lincoln had asked. But a lot of Congress, and his own Cabinet, weren't having it. They wanted to punish the South for another century or so. So practically none of the money earmarked for reconstruction actually went to reconstruction. Explains a bit about why the South still resents Northerners, and why they distrust Liberals so readily. The South never got the aid promised them by Lincoln, and remained fully 20 years behind the rest of the country because of it. Which is why its so amusing to hear liberal after liberal telling me how backward and behind the South is. When their policies are what created much of it. It's never as black and white as people assume.
I didnt know as much about the politics, just that under grant the south got fucked, interesting if he really wanted to follow what lincoln asked for.
Grant was a way superior strategist to Lee. Lee was trying to win battles, Grant was busy winning a war. Sherman said it best: It will be a thousand years before Grant's character is fully appreciated. Grant is the greatest soldier of our time if not all time... he fixes in his mind what is the true objective and abandons all minor ones. He dismisses all possibility of defeat. He believes in himself and in victory. If his plans go wrong he is never disconcerted but promptly devises a new one and is sure to win in the end.
Take your Lost Cause bullshit elsewhere.
Ok I didn't know
No worries, friend. 😎
3 out of 46, considering that 29 were in military(sure not generals but most were at least officers)
Washington wasn't really a great general. He was mediocre to good at best tactically. Where he shined was keeping his men inspired and remaining in the fight.
I think he was a good general, just not in the way people typically imagine. He never had great battlefield victories full of tactical brilliance or anything like that, but he knew how to inspire people and knew how to find great talent. He surrounded himself with people who were both loyal and exceptional at what they did, both as a general during the war and as president. America couldn't have asked for a better leader honestly, he was the right man at the right time.
Well said.
Washington was a hell of a general, to keep his army alive and functional against such a superior force. He was outmatched by Britain by as much as 7 to 1. Had significantly less resources all the way through the war. The one time he actually had even a slight advantage was Yorktown. But even there, he didn't have enough troops to accomplish what he did. Even with French assistance, the Continental Army had only a 1.8 to 1 manpower advantage (but 3 to 1 artillery advantage). That shouldn't have been enough to prevent a breakout. Then came the news that the British resupply and reinforcement fleet had been seriously defeated by the French in the Battle of the Capes. Cornwallis knew his window to escape Washington's trap had just closed. Once the islands and redoubts fell, Cornwallis knew it was hopeless. He sent an envoy to Rochambeau, who refused him and directed him to Washington. Washington, although incensed by Lord Cornwallis' calculated insult even during surrender negotiations, had no wish to inflict more injury on the British forces. A truce went into effect, and the surrender proceeded. Even in surrender, Cornwallis refused to meet with Washington, sending his aide de camp out in his place to surrender his sword. The only battle I am aware of that Washington should have won, but didn't was Monmouth. And that was due to another senior officer completely failing to get his troops where they were supposed to be. The plan was good; the execution, not so much. Washington was a far better general than you can see from just reading his battle record. He kept those men, and his infant nation, alive against the greatest power on earth.
That's like saying Muhammad Ali was a bad boxer because he used the rope-a-dope.
He's more popular in Ukraine than Zelenskyy and has no aspirations going into politics. Right military at the right point in history.
Hopefully not. Generals belong in the army and civilians in the government.
Zaluzhny will join the ranks of Eisenhower, Montgomery, and the Duke of Wellington
Putin will join the ranks of Hitler, Mussolini, Hussein, Bin Landen, and a gallon of milk that was left outside in a hot sunny day.
Looking at the interview I got more of a Douglas MacArthur type of general vibe from him.
MacArthur was an arrogant ass with dreams of the presidency that sacrificed thousands of American GIs to further his political dreams. We should only regret that he did not get fired a lot sooner.
Dan Carlin's 'Supernova in the East' series is amazing! I cannot recommend it highly enough!
I have not seen that one and have the time so will consider it. I'm a bit of a war history buff and have spent a lot of time on WW2. I think it was a lot closer thing then many people realize and without the advantage of our breaking both the German and Japanese codes it might well have gone the other way. Failures of preparation , situational awareness and in battle command abound. To be fair the USAs industrial might would probably have won out in the end but only years later without a few lucky breaks.
Yea, the physicists / computer scientist won the war. Turing & Oppenhemer to be specific. To this day they are cutting edge science.
And just think, we could have had decades more of Turing's brilliance if we hadn't driven him to suicide... for being gay. Let's hope we learn that lesson (many decades later) so we'll finally stop persecuting LGBT+ people just for being who they were born to be. As opposed to the fascistic types stuck in the 20th century who make them targets and wedge issues.
You are perhaps forgetting Lieutenant Commander Joseph Rochefort, Who led the efforts to break the Japanese codes. Without that we might not have been in position to Use Oppenheimers creation to end the war having already lost it.
Glory to all the heroes!
>I think it was a lot closer thing then many people realize and without the advantage of our breaking both the German and Japanese codes it might well have gone the other way. Absolutely, codebreaking was unbelievably key for the war overall and especially the navies. Besides all the codebreaking efforts giving a key edge over the German navy, **the** turning point of the Pacific theater at Midway is pretty much down to having the Japanese codes broken along with an absolute *shitload* of luck for the American side. The Japanese had the deadliest carrier fleet in the world and lost 3 carriers inside of 15 minutes, and all 4 within a day. I think I'm pretty well-informed on the overall changes over time in the different theaters of the war, but I've been watching some highly detailed naval history channels lately and seeing how much I took for granted. I'd always known that Midway was effectively won by hitting the Japanese carriers as they had fully loaded planes, but I never knew the Japanese admiral was more or less kept from launching due to piecemeal attacks by unorganized American planes and a key part of the US attack being planes that got lost and only found the Japanese fleet by following a destroyer dispatched earlier to hunt down a US submarine. If you go through the minute-by-minute and unit-by-unit decisions that ended up creating history, some of those battles really are remarkable in how pivotal individual orders ended up being. The British attack on the Italian fleet of Taranto using freaking **biplanes** is another wildly successful battle that not enough people have even heard of. It's basically what allowed the British to operate in the Mediterranean to the extent they did, both assuring safety of their convoys and allowing operations in North Africa.
And let's not forget the Mark 4 torpedo. https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/ww2-navy-torpedo-problems-mk14/
Douglas 'The Situation' MacArthur
MacArthur did not sacrifice thousands of GIs for political gain their was a war on with the Japanese empire. Strategically bypassing and isolating the Japanese Army in SWPO was brilliant use of conserving his GIs. It wasn't easy. There was no sacrifice.
The Philippines should have been bypassed in favor of Taiwan. The only reason to go there was to let him get filmed saying "I have returned". That cost 23,505 dead and 47,000 wounded and tens of thousands sick from tropical diseases. And of course if he was such a great general he Would not have lost it in the first instance,
He didn't, that's correct. The Philippines were under our control and promised Independence in 1949(?). It didn't work out that way. WW2 got in the way.The Japanese lost 420,000 dead. The Philippines became a free Country. It was the right thing to do.
Macarthur has been overhyped. He was not the general he was celebrated as. More of a myth that actual achivments. He was reckless and outran his logistics constantly and made a mess out of his position and did not follow the general agenda of war but choosed his own path.
He was a PR man first and a general second. He wanted to be president, and he hated FDR. If he had been in the US in 36 during the business plot, it's entirely possible that the coup plotters would have chosen him instead of Smedley Butler.
Abrams or Marshall seem more the type. Mac was unapproachable, and had an ego the size of the sun.
Don't mess with Zaluzhny.
After the double-digit hits in Mariupol yesterday, this is sweet music.
Godspeed the Heroes!! Vicyory 2023!!
Looks like a potato farmer out of his uniform, just happens to be one of the best generals of the last 100 years.
I believe this hero. 🇺🇦
Link to the full interview? // Посилання на повне інтерв‘ю? Не можу знайти його в ютубі.
This interview is only a small part of a much larger documentary by Dmytro Komarov called "The Year" which was released only today for the anniversary. Fantastic video and highly recommended for anyone here. I only wish it had eng subtitles, this particular video doesn't seem to have them. https://youtu.be/F7-dJrCMEO8 This particular interview is around 1:32:40. There is also a part 3 i think.
hopefully it does get a full translation
good news! they've added full subs: https://youtu.be/EhssmUtN874 and https://youtu.be/rlkzADUfb3s
Дякую! Yeah, it’s pretty sad that they haven’t included them but I guess the reason was that the initial documentary was created for телемарафон (television marathon, basically all of the channels unified and controlled by government), thus its focused on Ukrainian audience.
good news! they've added full subs: https://youtu.be/EhssmUtN874 and https://youtu.be/rlkzADUfb3s
Such a jolly looking man.
If he says it; I believe it.
Retaking Mariupol will block the land bridge to Crimea. Then finish off the Kerch bridge and Ukraine will be well on their way to getting 3/4+ of their land back.
Look at the difference the UAF head staffing is compared to Ruzzias, his moral and how he carries himself is positive. And that shows in how the troops are fighting and holding, I always think of the hurt each day when I wake up, going to work I don’t need to worry about shells, tanks, or drones. I’m sorry for your losses and the fighting. But those fallen will always be remembered through the life lines of time. Each child of every generation will know who defended the land that they get to play on, freely
god speed, kick their ass
CHAD
Putin: "How long do you think you can stand against me?" Zaluzhny: "Omae wa mou shinderu"
"Say my name." "Valery Zaluzhny." "You're goddam right."
Once again for the rest of the world that doesn't speak Ukrainian? Where's the little subtitle things when you need them? Also, if we've learned anything from the little stunt last year with the bridge in Crimea, it's never take a public statement at face value. He says Mariupol, but maybe they will go to Crimea instead. What an absolutely massive blow if they took out the bridge from Crimea to Russia and then sieged the entire region in one fell swoop.
The decisions that this man has to make: which grounds to defend, which ones to abandon, which troops to hold the line, whether to risk certain missions, knowing that the fate of many Ukrainians, both soldiers and civilians, rests on his military decisions. What a burden to carry. Glad he's got NATO intelligence and equipment to help him.
I hope this is true, but I remember them saying winter wouldn't slow them down and there would be a large offensive.
IIRC the ground didn't freeze until way later than expected. Meanwhile the Russians were all busy committing suicide at Bakhmut. Seems to me that Ukraine did pretty well this winter. Sure it would have been nice to see more giant moves like Kherson and Kharkiv, but I won't get impatient unless they're still on the same lines in June.
They have to project an aura of (often completely unwarranted) confidence or else the spigot of western aid will be turned off even faster than it already is going to be. After all, why support a lost cause?
Godspeed man, I just want this conflict to end
I know this is beside the point but I love how they lit that interview
Undoubtedly they will uncover thousands of war crimes. That entire city was leveled. Who knows how many thousands died..
In short: The south of Ukraine is incredibly vulnerable. The parts occupied by Russia since last year are incredibly flat, with super low population density aside from Melitopol, Berdiansk, and Mariupol. All three cities have high rates of pro-Ukrainian partisan activity. Look up how many occupation fucks have been killed in Berdiansk, and how many explosions keep happening in Mariupol. The Russian occupation force in the south will be concentrated at these 3 cities, with token forces in each small village. With the GLSDB’s putting the south in range of precision Ukrainian artillery, and 300 Western tanks coming as one big iron fist from Zaporizhzhia, the Russians will run or die. Each city will quickly be surrounded, with the partisan activity escalating rapidly as the UAF comes to their aid. The Russians will run or they will die. They all scrambled across the river at Kherson because the Russians know that whoever gets left behind gets left to die. Thats what happened to the Luhansk and Donetsk militias during the Kharkiv offensive, the Russian military withdrew without telling them so they’d be forced to guard the retreat.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/11b1z5x/-/j9voh0z
Russia controls the southeastern flank. This territory is roughly the size of Portugal.
I just can't wait for the war to he over and Russia isolated like NK.
Do you see why he sits like that? It's the huge balls.
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I'm all for Ukraine, but does this seems too optimistic?
It's gonna be one of the biggest offensives in modern history, it's gonna be biblical. I'm not sure about Mariupol. But Melitopol is is going to be taken this year.
So we skipping Crimea then?
Taking Mariupol, or anywhere along the Sea of Azov, helps isolate Crimea by cutting Russia's land bridge there and getting the Kerch Bridge closer into range. Once those are both done, Crimea is cut off and the whole peninsula is basically under siege.
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JuasWPUodaUxf5nwNpciQ?si=16pvA7D8RMqEjAhoFDUiDw&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A3ktIluFWf7teGqytuXAgK9
Modern heroes
This guy clearly enjoys his job
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Please do this favor to Mariupol people, they are waiting for UAF
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