RE: Russia and Ukraine
August 16, 2024 at 12:42 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2024 at 1:04 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The thing of value in kursk is the people. Not the residents, mind you....the conscripts. What putin has done thusfar is to toss expendables and ethnic minorities into the meatgrinder in ukraine. Russias important sons, the ones putin promised wouldn't end up in this "special military operation" are held back in russia at border regions - both to pressure ukraine with a border long front - and to prevent riots in st pete and moscow. Not just from the plebs...the oligarchs own children are often planted in these units to burnish their paper cred before assuming power.
-and to clear some things up, ukraine didn't force russia to do that, and russia isn't doing that - either because they won't, or they can't. They're feeding more conscripts from elsewhere to ukraines infantry. Never make the mistake of thinking russia will do the smart thing, or even the self serving thing. They're too far into the master strategists fever dreams to have those options remaining to them. The kursk problem, from a russian pov, will be solved by purging military officials.
-and to clear some things up, ukraine didn't force russia to do that, and russia isn't doing that - either because they won't, or they can't. They're feeding more conscripts from elsewhere to ukraines infantry. Never make the mistake of thinking russia will do the smart thing, or even the self serving thing. They're too far into the master strategists fever dreams to have those options remaining to them. The kursk problem, from a russian pov, will be solved by purging military officials.
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