Posted on 11/01/2022 4:29:33 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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“In all wars that Russia [and the Soviet Union] has ever fought, it relies entirely on the number of people,” Nazar says. “[Soviet Field Marshal Georgy] Zhukov said in World War II: ‘men’s deaths are not a problem, women will give birth to more of them’. That’s their viewpoint. A human for them is just a unit, a resource,” he says.
He attempts to have the opposite relationship with his soldiers.
“I’ve worked with American commanders and advisors,” Nazar says. “They have a great phrase: ‘do as I do’. It’s their motto, and I try to follow it as well.
“Russian commanders, on the other hand, they give orders and tasks to their soldiers without knowing how they will achieve them. Then they sit back while their troops fight, not caring how many of them will die or not. In order for your soldiers to trust you, they must see that you are not somewhere far away, but there at the forward positions with them. That’s the exact opposite of how Russian officers think,” he says.
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Much of the talk in Ukraine these days is about the much-anticipated final assault on Kherson, to liberate the only provincial capital Russian troops have captured since February 24. Nazar says the operation is nearly ready to go ahead – and that Ukrainian forces are already capable of taking the city.
“Let’s put it this way,” Nazar says. “I would like to conquer Yalta [in occupied Crimea] tomorrow. We would all like that, but I understand that it’s not quite possible yet. We will take Kherson when we consider it right.
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Hope they meet a wall of artillery! Fingers crossed!
Ruskies bit off more than they can chew.
Are they ready to die? Because that is what will happen to almost all of them.
American “commanders” now-a-days led by the Puppet Biden regime only think about lipstick and nail polish, or other important things like whether they are using the correct pronoun or if the color of the uniforms match their stiletto heel pumps.
Battle readiness is the last thing American commanders at the Pentagon think about. /spit
“Hope they meet a wall of artillery! Fingers crossed!”
I know that one batch of foreign soldiers, I mean ‘mercenaries’, told the Ukrainians to stuff-it when they were told to charge at Russian artillery. I suspect that they figure that if Ukraine wants to use human-wave attacks, they can use Ukrainians, or at least people from Reddit.
Hope in one hand, crap in the other.
They’ll get slaughtered. Go for peace, screw this madness.
Hope Russian artillery is destroyed before that happens.
LMAO.
The war in Ukraine clearly has entered a new phase, with Ukraine failing to press its offensive and Russia solidifying its lines of defense and launching counter attacks that are pushing Ukraine out of key strategic areas in Donetsk. It appears that the combination of the murder of Darya Dugina, the sabotage of the Nordstream pipelines, the bombing of the Kerch bridge and the spoiled drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastapol convinced the Russians to step up its military strikes to destroy critical electrical and energy infrastructure that they had previously left intact.
Yet, even while achieving success in systematically turning off the lights and heat throughout Ukraine, Russia is focusing on destroying transformers and key transmission installations rather than blow up nuclear, thermal and water power plants. If those sites are still intact, Russia will face an easier reconstruction task once Ukraine is defeated. It is easier to install new transformers and power lines than it is to build a new nuclear reactor. Right?
The Russian strikes reportedly have eliminated 50% of Ukraine’s ability to supply power and heat, which means life in Kiev, Lviv and Kharkiv will become unsustainable. We are not talking about the inconvenience of being unable to charge your cell phone or watch your favorite show on Netflix or keep your computer battery alive. The loss of power cuts off water supply and degrades the sewer system. As I noted in a previous piece, if your live four or more floors above ground level you will either have to carry buckets of water to the toilet or give up flushing. It also means no heat and the temperatures in Ukraine fall to near 0 Celsius at night. That would be tolerable if you have a fireplace (which most of the apartments in the urban areas do not have). With no radiant heat you must layer up just to avoid hypothermia.
Basic task like shopping require you dress as a cave explorer.
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Here is the bottomline–Ukraine’s military position will continue to erode in the coming weeks while economic conditions in England and the rest of Europe will worsen. The latter will make it impossible to sustain political support to continue sending unlimited financial and military aid to Ukraine.
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