Big_Gazza wrote:billybatts91 wrote:More delusional talk. Trends? Who cares, I'm talking about the Ukraine conflict and only that. Could care less about the trends in the geopolitical future that will take place decades from now. What collapse of morale? Ukrainians seem to have a pretty high morale as of right now thanks to the large swaths of land they've taken from the Russians recently.[url=https://servimg.com/view/20411266/14]
Mobilization, big deal, let's see how this mobilized force will perform in the coming weeks. If they have successes, I will praise them obviously. We have to see how things play out in the coming weeks. You're getting ahead of yourself as if Russia has had some big success as of late when it clearly hasn't, only losses/failure. Your optimism right now is not warranted until Russia has success on the ground and starts taking back the land that belongs to it. Until then, the criticism of Russian leadership and actions should continue as to light a fire under their asses! Ramzan has done it a lot recently and he's in Putin's inner circle, we should be doing the same.
FYI, "trends in the geopolitical future" are not happening decades from now. They are happening TODAY Don't believe that collapse of Western authority isn't happening just because our witless sock puppets won't admit it publically. The West can lose a military confrontation in Ukropistan and survive intact, but it CANNOT survive a loss of global dominance and the undermining of the petro-dollar fiat currency that underpins its true power.
Ukie morale soared as they advanced into territory that Russia decided to abandon so they could consolidate their over-stretched lines of contact (manpower limitations caused by the self-limiting terms of reference of the SMO, not any actual "weakness" of the Russian military), but has since collapsed as they finally reached Russias defense-lines and have not been able to advance since despite their horrendous losses. Try to understand. Advancing across a broad front while your opponent avoids your attacks and you fail to deliver any significant damage to him is NOT a victory. You are being led by the nose. Ukies now understand they have been manipulated to be right where the Russians want them - out of the cities, within easy reach of Russian forces, tired, exhausted, beaten down, armour lost, suppies running low, massive casulaties.
As an example, Ukie dog-soldiers on the northern "Kharkov" front find themselves stuck between an upcoming Russian offensive and the Oskol river. I had thought the Oskol was going to be a defence line, but it isn't. Its a TRAP. I think the Russians permitted the Ukrops to cross in strength, then held them with prepared defenses. The Russian offensive will now take out the Ukropi river crossings, deny them a lne of retreat, and then CRUSH them as they break and run. I suspect that Russian forces will probably turn south and converge on Slavyansk and Kramatorsk but that just my prediction and I've been wrong on tactical minutae plenty of times before, just like everyone watching from their counches.
Ukies are starting to panic and you can SMELL THE FEAR. The REAL war is only just now beginning
We shall see. Where I will praise the Russians is they have had great success in defending territory they've consolidated now, after their retreats. That has been impressive since the Ukronazis have not been able to penetrate any further and there are many losses among them. And I will say, I have heard Wesley Clark (former NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe) hint that he felt like the slight Russian retreat that happened in Kherson is a tactic that the Russians are using to lure the Ukrainians deeper in and to eventually destroy them when the Russian winter counter offensive happens (bit of paraphrasing but that was the gist of what he was worried about). That surprised me that he was that candid in what he really thought and said it on CNN. Those are small hopeful things, but we need to see major Russian advances in November/December, that would be a great way to start off the new year. Ukraine can't be allowed to move deeper and deeper into the Donbass or Kherson, they're gonna have to be eventually push back and the sooner it starts the better. I pray it happens soon.