Russia-Ukraine War (Threadbanned in op)

Ukrainian evolution in the war. Last night was the largest drone attack by Ukraine on Russia since the start of the war.

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for each of the past five days russia has lost over 1000 soldiers, the number increased steadily so yesteday the count stood at 1500, sorry but i have lost the link, the question now is for how long can russia afford these losses

Was the same with Bakhmut a year ago and here we are still talking about it.

The trouble with Putin is he still believes he is leading the USSR and believes he has the manpower of the USSR and uses the tactics of meat bags thrown at machine guns till they run out of bullets.

He doesn't realise it's now 2024 and not 1941. Ukraine and the west took him for a fool on this and now we've the reports of 100k's russians killed thanks to his outdated tactics and behaviour. He thinks he can emulate Stalin but this time it's Russia only, without the satellite states.

He's now sold out Russia to China as well as this. And this was the man who despised Yeltsin. So thick he couldn't see how stupid he was. Convinced himself and told those around him to tell him he was a great man.

Made me think of this:

We’re really into sci-fi warfare times with gun-toting drones. Cool & chilling in equal measure.

Seems to be a clear correlation with putin sending more forces on attacks and greater number of losses with another day of over a thousand reported by the Ukrainian armed forces as eliminated yesterday. At this pace they could have reached the half million eliminated from the battlefield in Ukraine since the 2022 invasion by the end of the month. The losses in equipment must also be blunting the effectiveness of putin's forces and the new recruits needed to keep the territories in Ukraine occupied will increasingly be less well trained conscripts who don't want to be there on the front lines attacking some imaginary Nazis that a deranged old man has invented to hold onto power.

No evidence to support my theory but I wonder if a lot of the talk of stalled and slow weapons supply from the supporters of Ukraine and man power shortages has been directed so it is encouraging putin's forces to push on the attack more intensely by giving them a false sense of hope that they can bring the conflict to an end with a victory for putin, when Ukraine knows it can simply make small fall back maneuvers in places and continuously weaken putin's army. How long can putin last the attrition is a good question. The EU and NATO members investing in arming Ukraine is the best route to peace in the east of Europe and I can't see them allowing putin claim a victory no mater how long it takes for Ukraine to secure its borders from his terrorists.

Theres a bunch of threads like this one that have glitches... unclear if its related to length... theres a helpdesk thread on it under disappearing posts.

In the list of priorities, I would be favouring it going to the nation who got invaded first.

Not great if Russia start to do this more.

"Putin and the man behind it all, Xi, must be amazed at how the West rolled over."

How do you mean "the West" rolled over? Aid to Ukraine from the USA, EU and other countries amounts to billions of euros with even Ireland helping by accommodating thousands of refugees and providing aid to help them cope with putin's terrorism. It would be nice to see a faster effect and putin's forces having to leave Ukraine more quickly and their terrorist actions in Ukraine being stopped completely but I don't see how providing billions of euros worth of aid and ramping up arms production particularly in Ukraine itself can be described as "the West rolled over".

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

Zelensky refers frequently to their manpower issues, exhaustion of troops, lowering of morale due to lack of rotation.

What can they do to reverse this? Doesn't matter how much munitions or weaponry they get, if there's not the will to use it.

That's if it wasn't disabled from within in the first place. I don't believe that Elon wasn't involved.