RE: Russia and Ukraine
July 31, 2025 at 7:35 pm
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2025 at 7:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
OFC they do, because for about 1k of them, every day, it is.
In other news, russia has officially reached the "charge on horseback" portion of their regression as a fighting force. There are no longer enough pieces of antique armor in the boneyards to adequately equip frontline units with museum quality weapons. They've reached the end of their soviet inheritance. Ukraine, otoh, has not logged a single push with russian kit in months, leaning into their mraps, bradleys, abrams, and above all, the drone line, as they systematically degrade the rails currently supporting the russian infantry occupation of the east and crimea, after having effected an artillery genocide of an artillery army - according to the russians, no less...last year.
There was an assessment of the btg structure from aars in russias previous wars done by some rando bill nye the science grunt type here in the states pre 2022 that it seems like the ukranian tac units are using as a bible, I believe I linked it some time ago. The short version is that due to the structure the russian military put all it's eggs in, even fully staffed and well equipped, a btg cannot operate further than x distance from a railhead. It's a literal point of no return...and so it's happened, with russian units stuck and trapped and attrited incapable of either advancing or retreating regardless of their orders.
This is a fascinating war, the most well documented conflict in human history. Ukraine missed a funding opportunity by not monetizing their sm channels.
In other news, russia has officially reached the "charge on horseback" portion of their regression as a fighting force. There are no longer enough pieces of antique armor in the boneyards to adequately equip frontline units with museum quality weapons. They've reached the end of their soviet inheritance. Ukraine, otoh, has not logged a single push with russian kit in months, leaning into their mraps, bradleys, abrams, and above all, the drone line, as they systematically degrade the rails currently supporting the russian infantry occupation of the east and crimea, after having effected an artillery genocide of an artillery army - according to the russians, no less...last year.
There was an assessment of the btg structure from aars in russias previous wars done by some rando bill nye the science grunt type here in the states pre 2022 that it seems like the ukranian tac units are using as a bible, I believe I linked it some time ago. The short version is that due to the structure the russian military put all it's eggs in, even fully staffed and well equipped, a btg cannot operate further than x distance from a railhead. It's a literal point of no return...and so it's happened, with russian units stuck and trapped and attrited incapable of either advancing or retreating regardless of their orders.
This is a fascinating war, the most well documented conflict in human history. Ukraine missed a funding opportunity by not monetizing their sm channels.
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