"We thought after we made it there the enemy would flee, but it didn't turn out that way."
"We thought after we made it there the enemy would flee, but it didn't turn out that way."
Looks like the western press is going for the "Ukraine is losing because they are incompetent Asiatics" right on schedule. This is the first wave of that stuff, they'll be actively blaming them for being cowardly and lazy within a few months.
41"Who could have known that Ukraine was so corrupt!? If only they were as brave and hardworking as us western Europeans, Russia would have surrendered already"
37Damn, you could write for WatPo with prose like that.
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Shit, anyone remember how mad they got over the Afghani puppet gov't not continuing to send men to die fighting a war even their master intended for them to lose?
We're seeing how the media would have reacted if they decided to reach the same outcome while sacrificing an entire generation of young men (and now women).
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Everyone who wanted to volunteer for war came a long time ago - it's too hard now to tempt people with money. Now we're getting those who didn't manage to escape the draft. You'll laugh at this, but some of our marines can't even swim.
Harrowing stuff, I can't even imagine being put into a situation like this against your will.
I'm starting to doubt if Zelensky is gonna last another year. He's seems to be getting more and more criticism, from higher up the chain of command too. I guess that's unavoidable as the war goes on, but his response is always to claim it isn't true and keep begging nato for bigger guns, which I can't imagine is great at placating unrest.
30This kind of scenario reminds me of WWI. I wouldn't be optimistic for a progressive revolution given the state of ideology but maybe we'll have an anti-west coup in Ukraine which would be one step
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I wonder who of these strategists had the brilliant idea to drip-feed amphibious landing parties into a fully manned frontline in an area under complete enemy surveillance in the middle of losing a war of attrition
29Critical support to the U.S. having horrible military strategies???
21I'm not sure it was the US's idea. Same as with Bakhmut i think they were telling Ukraine to stop throwing away resources on other fronts and just put everything they have into attacking in Zaporozhye to cut the land bridge. (Which is also bad advice since that was the most highly fortified and mined section of the front as we saw, and concentrating assets like that just makes them easier targets for Russian artillery, but that's a whole other discussion.)
I think the Dnieper crossing gambit was a British idea, they are enamored with these sorts of flashy special forces operations whereas the Americans favor simpler brute force solutions (usually involving just bombing everything from the air, something which cannot be done against Russian AD).
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they knew exactly where to find us
Gotta wonder if the US-privately-owned-and-operated intelligence systems are fatally compromised or simply selling info, Catch-22 Milo Style, to highest bidders.
24There is also a possibility of locals informing Russia. This area was firmly pro-Russian.
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