RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 2, 2023 at 1:31 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2023 at 1:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Desperation? Why should they be desperate. They already took bakhmut, ask them. They're just celebrating with what must be a fun round of friendly fire.
In seriousness, though, that's the rosetta stone to understanding battlefield disposition in this war. Russia and ukraine both release summaries of what they fired into, and what directions they took fire from. While ukraine is generally tight lipped - prefering operational security so much that they announce control days or even weeks after they've actually established it (if they ever make such an announcement at all..), russia prefers to use such announcements to control or manipulate the information space. Both for domestic consumption back home - basic tankie bitches here in the west, and, likely, in the belief that it could demoralize enemy troops or create operational confusion. On more than one occasion they;ve been right about that. It confused the hell out of the troops...their own troops... leading to loss of life and mass captures.
So, whenever russia says they own something, but -also- that they're firing into it or taking fire from it....they don't own it. They're communicating aspirational goals, not tactical or strategic realities.
In seriousness, though, that's the rosetta stone to understanding battlefield disposition in this war. Russia and ukraine both release summaries of what they fired into, and what directions they took fire from. While ukraine is generally tight lipped - prefering operational security so much that they announce control days or even weeks after they've actually established it (if they ever make such an announcement at all..), russia prefers to use such announcements to control or manipulate the information space. Both for domestic consumption back home - basic tankie bitches here in the west, and, likely, in the belief that it could demoralize enemy troops or create operational confusion. On more than one occasion they;ve been right about that. It confused the hell out of the troops...their own troops... leading to loss of life and mass captures.
So, whenever russia says they own something, but -also- that they're firing into it or taking fire from it....they don't own it. They're communicating aspirational goals, not tactical or strategic realities.
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