There are wide discrepancies between reported Ukrainian casualty rates. Pentagon estimates are higher compared with European intelligence estimates. The lower European estimates appear to be more accurate. Over the winter Ukraine's attrition rate dropped significantly from 1:12, to possibly as low as 1:2 - 1:1 in Ukraine's favor so maybe somewhere between 20-40K since December versus 100K for Russia.
Well bless your black heart.
Last edited by Bunion 2020; 05-22-2023 at 10:25 AM.
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
Yes, but there are very real costs in trying to pull a large portion of them into battle:
https://twitter.com/phillipspobrien/...sR_NcRK2VkCfkg
Russian soldiers fighting for Ukraine are currently in the process of liberating Russian territory from the Kremlin starting in Belgorod... Ukraine denies sending little green men into Russia.
“In all honesty, I have covered many wars in several decades and I can say that I haven't seen in a long time a more hysteric way to declare "victory" as we see now around Bakhmut. And I'm not even into the semantics whether Russians hold 95%, 98% or 100%. The very fact that they phrase it that way is hilarious in its own.
As I have mentioned already few days ago, Russians do not intend to move any further, or more precisely, they are not capable to move any further, which simply begs the question what was this all about. What strategic value offers Bakhmut in itself? The answer is simple. None. This fact was even stated by Prigozhin, Strelkov and others. It is a military travesty, aiming only for political games of the involved Russian warlords.
The Ukrainian strategy on the other side has been coherent and quite clear. First, to deny Russians entry to Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, secondly, bind Russian forces and prepare for their counteroffensive and, third, in the process decimating their ranks, which - when reflecting 100,000 Russian casualties - they have achieved with flying colors. The only threat was a potential encirclement of Bakhmut with the subsequent destruction of the Ukrainian armies in it, but that was averted and Russians were forced to run against the heaviest fortification, a stupidity in itself and exactly how Ukrainian strategist can ask for.
Ukrainians have even achieved additional tactical advantages by binding additional Russian forces in Bakhmut. Russians were so obsessed with Bakhmut that they were depleting lines and more importantly ammunition in Kreminna, Svatove, Avdiivka and Vuhledar. Literally every single one of those named areas ended in total disasters. Especially, Vuhledar can be called an epic fail.
However, when you look at the numbers than you can see that Bakhmut was actually the worst sector for Russians, because for the sake of just "staying in this area" it makes literally no difference whether you stay inside Bakhmut or 7km more to the East, because this is their pathetic "progress" in almost 10 months. It is however a complete difference when you have those 100,000 men and millions of artillery shells at your disposal. Even some Russians are starting to realize this.
You do not have to take my word, the developments in battlefield will say this in the clearest language. History is full of examples where political lunatics forced their military leaders into steps which any sane military commander would never have done. The terms "pyrrhic victory, second Stalingrad etc." have been used more than once. Maybe we will even add "Bakhmut victory" to the books. It certainly deserves a place in military idiocy.”
https://twitter.com/tendar/status/16...sR_NcRK2VkCfkg
Last edited by Bunion 2020; 05-22-2023 at 04:17 PM.
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
Is it because English is your second language that you come to the conclusions that you do? No one reading those posts would ever come to the conclusions that you do. It’s truly bizarre
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Getting a bit nutty in Belgorod
So the world is filled with tubular entities. Food goes in one end and shit comes out the other. Sperm goes in and babies come out.
Wild stuff and they've apparently covered some ground. We'll see what response shows [can show] up and how the Russian people will feel about it's military turning on its own people, albeit those labeled traitors.
I enjoyed this twofer from last week: https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/16...C8vd6Q_YMuAAAA Boom goes the dynamite!
What do you mean? Belgorod is part of Ukraine. Sounds like some Russian separatists just restoring Belgorod to its proper owner. Nothing to see here. Where did they get their tanks? Who can say.
Also this tweet kills me:
https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/st...027287043?s=20
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Last edited by Meconium; 05-22-2023 at 02:54 PM.
So the world is filled with tubular entities. Food goes in one end and shit comes out the other. Sperm goes in and babies come out.
who else knows about colloidal silver here?
j'ai des grands instants de lucididididididididi
BPR (Belgorod People's Republic) is crushing it in Belgorod about now. Time to declare independence.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/st...65054071599104
"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
Ukraine can feed Russian rebels all that captured Russian armament; can’t cry NATO..
Whose to say that Ukraine is feeding them anything? They could just have bought all their stuff at Russian milsurp stores. Maybe they aren't even "backed" by Ukraine, maybe this is just a case of people self-organizing and rising up against an oppressive and tyrannical regime. How dare you accuse Ukraine!
- what pretty much every Western media outlet said but about the LPR/DPR and Russia's support back in 2014
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