RE: Russia and Ukraine
February 28, 2023 at 9:36 am
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2023 at 9:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Yeah, if or when it's no longer tenable to hold bakhmut they'll just do it all over again in the next pile of rubble where a city once stood..and, at the rate that russia is making gains, it'll be what, a mile from bakhmut by this years end? There's no shortage of ruined towns in ukraine..for some reason or another having nothing to do with russia, I'm sure.
The value of bakhmut to russia was that it's the only place where they can easily support an offensive (apparently). That won't be true once they move out from bakhmut, should they take it - and whatever troops russia has held up in the defence will be free, when bakhmut is no longer held, to do the very thing that russia hopes to prevent by sending endless waves of human chattel forward to their death. The value to ukraine was in kettling the invaders in a place that was already no mans land, instead of some city that still has life. The story shits the bed. Bakhmut isn't any kind of prize. It's a killing field. Russia is trying to take control of a mass grave filled with russians and there's nothing else about the town that's noteworthy or newsworthy. There are petty ambitions to be mocked. Those sweet, sweet salt mines in bakhmut and soledar that Prigozhen very clearly wants - but that's grift with a small g - those mines will never produce enough value to offset the cost of russian losses..and before you go thinking that I'm suggesting the russian admin gives a shit about it's people..no, stop it. I'm talking loss to equipment and economy, lol. You;d have to mine alot of fucking salt to cover the expense of this war...though, I suppose they're trying their damnedest in the collective tears of ukranians and russians alike. Just imagine, if they'd found a way to harvest all the rashists crying in their cups about no empire no longer, they'd never have had to go to salt war in the first place! Anthony, this potato needs more salt, go get me salt. The real reason putin launched his invasion. We don't make our best decisions while hangry.
The value of bakhmut to russia was that it's the only place where they can easily support an offensive (apparently). That won't be true once they move out from bakhmut, should they take it - and whatever troops russia has held up in the defence will be free, when bakhmut is no longer held, to do the very thing that russia hopes to prevent by sending endless waves of human chattel forward to their death. The value to ukraine was in kettling the invaders in a place that was already no mans land, instead of some city that still has life. The story shits the bed. Bakhmut isn't any kind of prize. It's a killing field. Russia is trying to take control of a mass grave filled with russians and there's nothing else about the town that's noteworthy or newsworthy. There are petty ambitions to be mocked. Those sweet, sweet salt mines in bakhmut and soledar that Prigozhen very clearly wants - but that's grift with a small g - those mines will never produce enough value to offset the cost of russian losses..and before you go thinking that I'm suggesting the russian admin gives a shit about it's people..no, stop it. I'm talking loss to equipment and economy, lol. You;d have to mine alot of fucking salt to cover the expense of this war...though, I suppose they're trying their damnedest in the collective tears of ukranians and russians alike. Just imagine, if they'd found a way to harvest all the rashists crying in their cups about no empire no longer, they'd never have had to go to salt war in the first place! Anthony, this potato needs more salt, go get me salt. The real reason putin launched his invasion. We don't make our best decisions while hangry.
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