Russian special military operation in Ukraine #38

Son, it's all good with me, if you're fine with watching your compatriots getting slaughtered due to sheer incompetence of their commanders.
Once more into the breach ( replace breach with head into the wall), dear friends.

I reserve my judgement, until we get an analysis by an officer of a military academy, or at least the opinion of a respected retired officer; on this or that alleged episode of 'compatriots getting slaughtered' or 'incompetence of their commanders'
Telegram retards, some probably with Ukro backing, others just looking for sensationalism popularity points - and their opinions; simply don't do it for me.

Because what I saw in that video was just war, not anyone getting slaughtered. And if you're not prepared for the fact that your guys will die, enemy artillery might catch them by surprise, etc.. well then maybe you should take up another hobby and give your mind a break from this forum.
I don't quite understand what it is you people expect?

Do you want only carefully curated videos and select cuts where everything is going fabulously and the impression is given that the Russian military is invincible while the Ukrainian one is being decimated at every turn?

When you spill your tea and witness an expanding fluid; do you expect that all the individual molecules will be rippling out across the table too? In fact if you zoom in, you will see that the individual molecules are going backwards and forwards and left and right in all directions and changing their velocity constantly. It's only the overall tendency, and their direction on average, that produces the visible result of the fluid expanding from the center.
In the same sense, war is also a chaotic process.. and you are here watching a single molecule; yet making conclusions about the direction of the liquid as a whole. 99.9% of these molecules BTW are not recorded at all, you only see 0.1% of them, and indeed they can be going in any direction depending on the agenda of whoever provides the footage. What he decides to show you and what he decides not to show you.  It doesn't mean anything about the overall progression of the war, and about who is taking more casualties. That's something you can only get a sense of by zooming out and looking at the big picture, and at statistics, and other pieces of evidence.

I really shouldn't have to explain all this stuff. It should be obvious.

A one-sided perspective will only offer limited insight. In my opinion, this conflict is a grueling and brutal battle, like two prehistoric men engaged in a violent fight were they rip each other limbs apart. Russia is a bigger man. But still, All this voenaya priomka and other BS net analogov vmire TV shows flew out through the window long time ago.

No it didn't, it all still applies

Russian equipment and vehicles are superior by any metric to what the Ukrainians have. The Ukrainians have some comparable or better equipment only in a few cases. Night-vision googles for their elite infantry. Maybe some of the thermals on their latest upgraded T-64 tanks. Maybe their indigenous ATGM system is better as it is capable of being operated remotely without risk to the operator.

Most everything else is an advantage to the Russian side. Does that mean they will win every engagement, deflect every tank shell, put every round on target? No it doesn't. It only improves the average statistic.

The problem is you are defending what cannot be defended, we know what happened. Russians advanced in an open field, Ukie troops occupied the building over looking it, The russians knew but they charged anyways, if you ARE going to conduct moves like this you need like 10 to 1 odds and be prepared to lose a lot of guys, the russians did not out number the ukie defenders by any major portion which ALREAY doomed the attack.

I don't need to write a 10 para blog post to explain that

1. I'm not necessarily defending it or attacking it, I'm pointing out it was a company-level action in a war involving hundreds of thousands across both sides.
You might as well point out an individual soldier, check his competence, and if he's lacking - use that as evidence that Russia is doing badly in the war.

2. I don't know what happened there, neither do you. I don't know if Russians were advancing in an open field, looked more like a dirt road and a tree line. I don't know if there were Ukrainian troops in whatever building was allegedly there; maybe I wasn't paying enough attention. I don't know if its possible to even advance at all anywhere in the Donbass without encountering an apartment building present to overlook everywhere around it.. the entire region is endless urban sprawl.
I don't know it, you don't know it, the information is coming from some retard Telegram accounts that I neither trust nor take seriously. If a military analyst writes a serious article on this video and figures out who was where doing what, then there would be something to discuss.

I am talking about the man who gave the order. There is no defending such a dumb mistake

Yes that is what happened EXACTLY what I said

What order? Do you have a readout of it?

And can you tell me exactly what happened?

Once again, what we have here is a video from Telegram, not full-length but edited, and a Telegram post describing what we're seeing in it and how it came about, together with an anonymous written account written in more general terms yet from who's perspective I'm not sure.
That's it.
If you want to take all that stuff on face value, feel free. I'm not willing to on my part though. There is nothing more to discuss.

soft-left anti-colonial libs of the the 3rd world,

Picturing some African hipsters with mini-afros sipping latte at a pretentious cafe in downtown Lusaka discussing who's right and wrong in the Russo-Ukrainian war

I'm sorry what?