Just as effective as Calypso Louie's Million Man March.
Posted on 08/05/2022 10:58:14 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Ukraine is still dreaming of a counter-offensive in the south:
Ukraine said the Russian offensive in the east looked like an attempt to force it to divert troops from the south where Kyiv's forces are trying to retake territory and destroy Russian supply lines as a prelude to a wider counter-offensive.
"The idea is to put military pressure on us in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk over the next few weeks ... What is happening in the east is not what will determine the outcome of the war," Ukrainian Presidential Adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said in an interview on YouTube.
Arestovych is of course wrong. The war was decided in the east when the Ukrainian military followed its bosses orders and moved everything it had to that front. That gave the Russian artillery the chance to take it apart. The Ukrainian tactic, ordered from above, was to hold onto every position until it was completely destroyed. A more mobile defense would likely have been more effective and would have cost less casualties.
The units that Ukraine pulled back from Donbas and has send down to Kherson for its 'million men' offensive were already heavily mauled. They have now been waiting for weeks for the offensive to launch. Meanwhile Russian missiles have hit several of those repositioned units and caused a high numbers of fresh casualties. The removal of Ukrainian artillery from the Donetsk line allowed for the breakthrough at that line.
The long time it took for all that repositioning to happen has also given time for the Russian forces to strengthen its troops around Kherson. There are by now sufficient numbers for the Russian's to launch their own offensive in the area.
General Hromov said Russia might launch its own offensive in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson to try to win back momentum in the war after building up its forces there. The general got that right. The Russian offensive in the south may launch as early as next week.
Oh, heck, there’s a reason it occurred to me.
“ 191 thousand soldiers were killed and wounded “
So Sad.
Zelinsky is a brave man, willing to fight to the last Ukrainian life. (before hopping on a helicopter and being whisked away to the Biden’s house right as the Kiev falls)
This is when Europe’s birth rate is at historic lows.
“Know what would be catastrophic but darkly hysterical? If China invaded Russia.”
Or if Japan retook the Kuril Islands.
Just as effective as Calypso Louie's Million Man March.
What would happen if China sent one million soldiers to Ukraine to help Russia? What if they sent their Airforce? What if they use their troops to get in a little combat practice before invading Taiwan? North Korea offered 10,000 men? They will work for food. Russia has a lot of Ukraine Grain to feed them? Imagine how Chinese will treat prisoners or civilians? We know, we have fought them in the past.
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