If they could they would.
That is never true.
Nobody knows what they can or can't do till they try and I think this operation should really have opened HATOs eyes to how it is oriented and how its military forces are based.
The enormous bias to air power has been their undoing... great against third world countries but moving forward more and more countries are getting the air defences of first world countries or even better... second world countries.
That front was the same for months. No real progress.
So? If there was no interest in moving that front then you would expect no movement.
If they tried and tried a tried and expended enormous forces and energy to move the front and it didn't move or didn't move much or moved a little and then moved back (sound familiar) then it would be clear they failed.
Nothing of the sort happened for Russia.
And the 300k mobilized don't seem to change the situation.
You need to ask why they were mobilised.
Do you think they did it to just continue what they are doing in the same places and same conditions, or are they planning something in advance for a specific time period for a specific effect and expected outcome...
Most think they would be used in an offensive but that yet has to be proven.
Everyone who thinks they might be used in an offensive also pointed out that current muddy conditions are not really suitable to big offensives and that in a few weeks to a month conditions would be better... ironic because those moaning most for a mobilisation wanted them sent to the front immediately as cannon fodder.
The actual political forces within russian armed forces are destroying the russian army. Wagner, Chechens, Special forces... are all trying to get dumb victories to be seen as the best even if it fucks up the operation.
Hahahahaha.... yes, the success of the Russian military is political and is destroying the Russian civilisation... don't they know these nazis have decided to be European and the nazis in Europe have started proceedings to accept them as cannon fodder for the empire?
Add to that a political leadership that doesn't even know what goal it wabts and keep negociating with the USA and you end up with a lost war.
Putin was pretty clear about the goals since the start and has repeated them multiple times for the idiots...
Everything is going to plan... Ukraine is going to get hollowed out and the nazis and Orcs displaced into the EU and the west is going to revisit those documents Putin gave them to look at late last year (HATO and US)... and then we will see.
I suspect Russia will withdraw all its diplomats from EU countries and close borders off pointing west... which raises the question about what they might want to do about Kaliningrad...
It all comes down to what the western and northern Ukrainian people want... if they want to fight to the last then Russia can oblige... no kid gloves needed there now.
I'm not optimistic about a russian victory. It will be a long conflict like Syrian or Iraqi ones that will last forever and at the end will be useless.
As soon as you say a long conflict then it is safe to assume the west is going to lose... they spend too much on war and "defence" and can't afford long wars any more... even though they race to create or join wars at the drop of a hat.
It’s just a mediocre and flawed tank that is about to be replaced by brand new modern and up to date T-14,
They are doing the job they were designed for just fine with being expensive maintenance whores like western tanks that need air conditioned storage or all their batteries go flat.
Even if they had all T-14s what difference would that make... not a lot... T-14s would still get destroyed when hit properly and still break down from time to time, or are you 12 years old and think the best tank is the best and is perfect and nothing bad ever happens.
Most of the sophisticated net centric stuff the T-14 would use is probably not completely implemented yet across all platforms so there is no huge value in rushing it to the front when other tanks can do the same job.
Technically speaking, on paper, Oplot is better tank than any T-72 derivative apart from T-90AM
It has 28 vertically stacked super vulnerable propellent stubs at the feet of the turret crew ready to immediately burst into flames with any penetration of the turret that sends sparks or burning material bouncing around the turret... the T-64/T-80 autoloader layout is totally flawed... and the solution to put all the ammo in the turret bustle just left the ammo even more exposed.
Plus like others have said, if Russia can pullout their heavy equipment, then they could also supply their existing troops.
Russia can withdraw because the dams have not been destroyed yet... moving back means destroying the dams no longer makes any military sense.
Can't win a war if you keep retreating. I hope a winter counter-offensive is in the works.
The Taliban retreated everywhere the US/west attacked in Afghanistan... who won there?
The mighty european armies retreated in the face of the Germans in WWII, but they had the Soviets to beat the Germans for them.
What about offense? Where can russia attack now? And I dont mean a local attack to take a few hundred meters.
Kinda hard to say without knowing the concentrations of enemy forces, but I would suggest bypassing large concentrations of enemy forces inside urban areas and encircling them and then killing them out in the open when they come out for water or food or ammo.
Russian society & more importantly the Kremlin are not ready for this. Mass death of soldiers, like I've said before, is, in the eyes of the Kremlin, the biggest threat to political stability in Russia. They believe that huge casualties are worse than strategic defeats.
So this podcast wanker is saying the problem with the kremlin is that they are not ready to walk their soldiers to unnecessary deaths.
Couldn't possibly be that they are waiting for harder ground for better mobility because they enjoy better mobility and can use that to increase the cost to the enemy as well as move smaller amounts of troops around the battlefield to effectively deal with much larger groups of enemy forces than they could right at this current moment.
Thank God Putin isn't Zelenskiy and he doesn't throw soldiers into the meat grinder, but he risks NOTHING.
He doesn't have to risk anything... the **** wit enemy is on borrowed time... it will be their government that will collapse when the people of the country suffer winter conditions and find out their men are being walked into artillery barrages by idiots who would make WWI British commanders look like genius humanitarians.
Saying it in advance just in case: If this is true it's capitulation, plain and simple
They used a humanitarian aide corridor to launch a terrorist attack on a civilian bridge and a drone attack on the Black Sea Fleet, but refused to open humanitarian corridors to allow their own civilians to leave cities under attack... and when they moved forward when Russian forces withdrew for whatever reason they brought more civilians as meat shields to fire at Russian soldiers and civilians from behind... they signed two agreements at Minsk...
This is bullshit... and it plays on the insecurities of several faggots who think Putin is the problem... because the west is telling them he will sell them out...
He has now recognised the danger... joining the west now requires becoming part of the alphabet soup orgy... the weak and oppressed are finding power and finding their voices and are using their new power to do to conservatives what the conservatives have been doing to them, which is hilarious... it is like ghettos and walls in Israel... but of course they don't see the joke... it is not a funny joke, it is the sort of thing that makes you smile and think about sayings like "what goes around comes around".
Manpower wins wars - sweat and blood. Not fancy toys.
Rubbish... the Chinese were beaten and broken by the Japanese and the Chinese were also defeated by the Vietnamese in the 70s when the Chinese decided to go in and teach them a lesson... the German forces pushed the western europeans to the English Channel and the Soviets to Moscow very quickly and very easily and if they weren't such ruthless nazi bastards they might have offered Russians some sort of autonomy that they might have been happy with and then turned and destroyed the UK with all the resources and manpower from Russia.
The USSR showed this in the GPW. If Russia couldn't ferry or airlift over thousands of the mobilized men over a river over last 2 weeks and/or the next 8 weeks, then we deserve the worst outcome in this war.
It is not about getting them in there, it is about the risk of flooding cutting them off and them having to fight without resupply.
Those artillery barrages they use to decimate the enemy are not blades of grass or leaves from a tree... they are artillery shells and propellent charges that have to be delivered in enormous numbers continuously to keep the guns firing... and not just that.
While Ukrainian territory will also be scorched economically, and the EU's in attempting to support them - this is also attrition and goes towards the same goal; forcing capitulation and collapse from exhaustion.
The EU is arming and supporting a country at war at a time when their own problems are only getting bigger... energy costs have spiralled out of control and not just that... gas is actually used for a lot of other things including the chemical industry and for fertiliser... the US to the rescue can't even supply its own needs let alone rescue the EU.... their method of rescue for the EU is to tell the EU to move production to the US and get subsidies from the money printing machine... the EU has already stated it will take the US to the WTO over it... but when has that ever stopped the US... they are the WTO...
In the right hands its only the most dangerous opponent Russian tankers could face.
Ukraine's trash cans had such weak armor that it could be pierced head-on. No challenge at all.
But a Ukrainian T-90 might actually make the Russian gunner work to earn his paycheck.
But then Russian anti tank missiles fired from drones and helicopters can blunt any attack and it seems to me that the Ukrainians are no longer using large formations of armour... instead they use lots of soft vehicles including civilian vehicles together with a single tank or BMP... which, when taken out breaks the attack and leads to a real local route...
The only danger is if the enemy finds a 3rd option you hadn't considered.
It is always important to be flexible and adaptable when it comes to plans and war... always be ready to change tactics.
Because I haven't heard of any US-Russia talks nor of the Russian desire for them.
The US created this conflict and whether they have any interest in ending it it will only be on terms they prefer so there is nothing to talk about really.
Except where to send the bodies.
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