You know a counteroffensive is going to succeed when you let everybody know about it before it even happens
I’d quote joe tzu all the time from now on xD
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Whaaat? You mean the counter offensive didn’t push all the way into Moscow? How shocking.
lol hasn’t even moved an inch after two weeks
It took only twenty days for him to backpedal? Wow.
It’s a tough job being a NATO propagandist these days
Remember when they used to call it the “spring offensive”?
Ukraine still hasn’t formally admitted that it started…
That pretty much is a tacit admission to its failure.
They are so obsessed with saving face that they would only ever admit to starting an offensive if they had reasonable gains.
For sure, and doing that while western media is openly reporting on the offensive really highlights what utter clowns they are. Everybody can see the offensive is happening and that it’s a giant failure so far, but they just keep claiming how they’re doing probing with their best equipment.
Nafobots on lemmy are like “Of course they wouldn’t inform Russia they are starting!” while it’s 3rd week of attacks.
we’re reaching new heights of copium every day
are they still getting most of their armor destroyed in the “screening zone” or whatever it’s called? I remember a few days ago The New Atlas was pointing out how they hadn’t even reached Russia’s first defensive line yet
It looks like in the past few days they cooled off with using armor, recently they’ve been just sending a lot of troops in to storm villages and they managed to capture a few that way. However, now they have to start making their way across open fields again and the whole thing stalled once again. They’re still kilometres away from the actual defensive lines.
Basically what’s happening is that they’re making their way through heavily mined open fields. As they discovered over the past two weeks, this makes it effectively impossible for a large armored assault to happen. Ukraine would send a mine clearing tank and the rest would have to follow in a line since moving to the side means hitting a mine. Russians would disable the first vehicle and then pick off the rest since they have nowhere to go. On top of that, KA-52s can hit these columns from up to 10 km away, and Ukraine doesn’t have anything that can hit back. So, all the vehicles are basically sitting ducks.
The new tactic of throwing infantry in first to clear the way saves vehicles, but obviously result in much higher manpower losses. It’ll be interesting to see what Ukrainians do in the next few weeks. The pressure from the west to show some results before the NATO meeting in July must be incredible, so they could be forced to use zerg rush tactics.
his profile pic looks like he’s trying to take a shit
It is all the Red Army’s fault for stopping in Berlin and not continuing west till they got back to Russia.
My favorite part of Operation Bagration is when the Stavka announced to the Germans that they were preparing an offensive on the Belarussian Balcony so that the Germans could dig in their defenses and redeploy their Ukrainian front tank battalions.
Damn, looks like NAFO won’t be getting their crimea beach party. Very sad, I weep for them.
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Who would have thought that Russia would not prepare for the counteroffensive, which they have been openly planning for months? A lot of preventable deaths for nothing
Apparently all the brilliant NATO planners, the offensive has exposed the sheer incompetence of the western military planners.
