The only reasons why that come to mind are:
A) They are really trying to squeeze every penny out of this conflict.
B) They are masking the true capability of their forces.
It could be both.
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Cheetah wrote:Just my two cents, but it appears to me as if Russia is trying to fight this war on a budget. With the exception of the first few hours of the strike, we've seen nothing in terms of PGMs, the bulk of the air-force appears to be completely absent from the theatre, the majority of the equipment we've seen have been relics from the Soviet era, and the ground force presences that we see from the Russians is almost entirely consistent of Gaz Tigrs, MT-LBs and other lightly armoured personnel carriers.
The only reasons why that come to mind are:
A) They are really trying to squeeze every penny out of this conflict.
B) They are masking the true capability of their forces.
It could be both.
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hoom wrote:This is a debacle & I can't support it.
There I said it.
I still am appalled by the actions of the 404 govt agianst their ethnic minorities, western media & govts should be ashamed for creating & supporting it.
But this whole thing is playing out like a giant reverse of the 404 incursion into Donbas: the deep penetrations without clearing flanks being picked off by ambushes, the widespread civilian hostility, its like they have learned nothing from 2014, the successive 8 years & Syria.
The softly softly, attempting to minimise casualties & civilian infrastructure damage, is laudable but its getting people killed, equipment destroyed/captured & its emboldening the 404 soldiers.
Its one thing losing a few columns to ambushes if the other side is shocked into inaction/surrender by the speed of advance, getting cut-off, accurate incoming etc. but the pauses have given them time to regroup, recover from initial shock & see a heap of successful ambushes.
They might have gotten away with this sort of op instead of doing Minsk 1, it makes no sense so much later, after years of nato training/equipping/intel/C&C integration & after months of US pumping in thousands of modern ATGMs.
I had thought they were going to go into the DPR/LPR & sit on the LoC -> enforce peace in the same way the 404s didn't shell into Crimea, there seemed to be an acceptance of that, there would be some new sanctions but not the full shebang.
The solution isn't to flatten cities, massacre civilians or starve them out with long seiges, I dunno what is.
Probably should have settled for Crimea & a couple of million grateful refugees back in 2014. Maybe even just the refugees.
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Serberus wrote:twitter.com/666_mancer/status/1497914392209330176?s=20&t=B9VFDT-jzqRq_X3DGbdWCw
Carnage reportedly in Bucha
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Arkanghelsk wrote:The strategy of Putin makes sense, I was angry yesterday seeing images
But now it makes sense, 50,000-70,000 in Ukraine
150,000-200,000 around Belarus to make sure NATO does not invade Belarus or Russia in Kaliningrad
If Russia needs to go to war with NATO the airforce and army must be reserved for that war,
Also the reason we havent see s400 or major Russian air defense go active, they are waiting for NATO
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Arkanghelsk wrote:The strategy of Putin makes sense, I was angry yesterday seeing images
But now it makes sense, 50,000-70,000 in Ukraine
150,000-200,000 around Belarus to make sure NATO does not invade Belarus or Russia in Kaliningrad
If Russia needs to go to war with NATO the airforce and army must be reserved for that war,
Also the reason we havent see s400 or major Russian air defense go active, they are waiting for NATO
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