(September 6, 2022 at 3:16 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:(September 6, 2022 at 2:47 am)Deesse23 Wrote: Where is the frontline currently, and how much has it moved in the past 3 months?
If this graphic from Wikipedia is any indication, it doesn't seem to have moved much in the last couple months, and what little seems to have moved is Russia inching forward.
If this is the result of a minor country resisting a "superpower", then IA is soundly refuted (as if he wasnt beforehand, one day after the invasion started).
By the way: Vietnam was even more of a small country and USA was even more of a superpower. Same for Afghanistan, Somalia, etc. While Ukraine is not fighting an asymetric war like the above mentioned, we may as well are currently witnessing just another approach to this, one that seems to work: Be defensive, focus on resisting in big population centers in order to avoid Blitzkrieg (as if russia didnt already learn this lesson some 80y ago). Iow: bog down your enemy in order to fight his (and his populations ) morale, since you know your own morale "supply" is higher. Refuse open battle. Go after logistics (amateurs talk tactics, pros are talking logistics), ammo dumps etc.
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We may just simply found out that the russian army is much less of a fighting force a (military) superpower wants to have than we thought and ignoramuses like IA still think. The over emphasis of artillery, lack of manpower, terrible morale, corruption and incompetent leadership, all of this (and more) does not indicate to me anyone should shit his proverbial pants too much when Putin is posing.
After all it wasnt much different in 09/1939 and 05/1941 (there you go, Godwins law again). Everybody shit his pants just because Adolf was shouting, when they shouldnt.
IA is so full of shit, on every scale, from every single conceivable angle

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