Spacing from explosives is also something your taught over and over in basic.
Now you are being a dumbass... what level of spacing protects you from a rocket barrage with cluster munition warheads?
Such a convoy spread would invite a sabotage group to ambush said convoy because they would not be able to see from one truck to the next let alone defend themselves.
Ukraine sending a batallion or two across a very long border? That happens. I don't hold anyone responsible. However, whoever was in command of that convoy, if they are still alive, needs to be held criminally liable for not following basic safety measures. Seriously, attempts at camo, no effort at dispersal? Yeah someone needs to be fired and arrested.
Not sure what level of spacing would protect a convoy of trucks when the weapon being used is guided artillery rockets with cluster bomb munitions as a payload... do you honestly think spacing each truck 200m from the next would save them?
With guided rockets each truck would receive the payload of one rockets worth of cluster munitions... which would be enough I would think.
What is bad is that Ukraine is serious about this war, but I don't think the Kremlin is as serious as it should be.
2,000 orcs a day are dying and you say they are not serious... they don't need to be advancing and killing orcs at the rate they are doing now, but I suspect they will lower the threshold and expand the range of targets that are now acceptable to take out.
Things just got worse for the Ukraine.
They don't have the strength and resources to reach the Dnieper along its entire length. It's not even known when they'll take over Donbass. It could be years.
With desperate attacks like this, the Ukrainian forces wont last years.
This is a reminder that this war is going to be years long. Dont expect anything else.
I disagree. Kievs forces have been weakened, and for the cost of too many border guards, their elite attack force is being mopped up despite their celebrations on line, they can't afford to do this very often.
The money is running out and Biden will be gone soon enough.
But of course if it takes another 3 years then that is what it takes... this is the sort of job you don't leave unfinished because if you do you will have to deal with it again in 5 or 10 years time and it wont be any easier then... in fact it might cost you more.
Talk less and do more. That goes for both you and Russia.
Hilarious, a guy from Finland complaining about a Russian not dealing with a nazi problem his country supports and funds.
You country is repeating the mistake it made in WWII when it joined forces with Nazi Germany... and they are losing again... what are you doing about it, other than moaning here?
The Drama Queens parade is here again
X2 Spot on... either the sky is falling and it is all Putins fault, or they should use nukes...
NATO/USA will never give up on Ukraine.
Tell that to Afghanistan and Vietnam... they are going to take an enormous financial hit, but life will carry on, and those big US companies banking on making billions will have to deal with their losses.
They will keep sending weapons as long as Ukraine has soldiers.
That isn't important any more.
An unlimited supply of weapons is not what the Ukraine needs... that ship has sailed...
So don't give them any justification for doing so. Yes it's increasingly outdated clunky crap like the Leopard 1s or whatever, but it can still prolong the war and still get Russian soldiers killed.
Target practise for drones mostly.
As the Ukraines economy tanks because half the available male population runs to the EU and the other half is ground up on the front line for no good reason, they have so many increasing problems that more weapons simply wont fix.
For the war to last as long as possible and for Russia to bear the sacrifices and material costs of the war for as long as possible and not to allocate money to other sectors of development, etc. Even if they lose, they will want to drag it out.
But hardware and ammo is being replaced faster than it is being used up or lost, the loss of men is a problem but they have found a few different ways of minimising that. Occasionally Kiev will score a win, but ultimately it wont change anything except the determination of those fighting them to keep killing them.
Human beings will naturally feel sorry for an enemy, but when they keep inflicting attacks like this it makes it rather simpler and easier to motivate Russian troops to kill them if they don't try to surrender.
The war also costs Russia a lot. Especially since it is one of the largest conflicts since World War II.
Actually despite the increase in defence spending this conflict has not been expensive... they could pay off their government debt in cash without problems, and cutting off of Russia from the west has led to Russia finding other markets to sell its goods and it is selling rather well. Initial discounts are gradually being removed as new infrastructure is set up to support the transport and logistics of the sales, and Weapons exports are expected to boom over the next few years because of this conflict and the conflict in Syria. Food exports are huge, and energy volumes are down but the prices are up so overall they have not lost anything. In fact now it is not European companies making money on Russian oil exports via shipping and insurance... that is now going to other countries.
I would say this has damaged the west rather more than it has damaged Russia because they are throwing money down a bottomless pit and they are paying more for energy and everything else and their hopes of economically and militarily and politically destroying Russia have backfired... Putin is more popular in Russia than ever, they now appreciate him more than ever before and they now see the west for the evil monster it has always been.
I agree that in conventional military strength Russia will never be able to defeat Ukraine.
Rubbish. Without the support of some of the worlds richest countries and the military might of both HATO and the US of A, the Ukraine would have had a peace settlement at Istanbul a few months after the conflict started. Now they have lost several generations of young men they wont be getting back, and the effort to keep them going is seriously damaging the west.
Russia is still only using a tiny fraction of its military power in this conflict.
Because using more wont make a huge difference. This conflict ends when Kiev runs out of men and that process is working just fine.
NATO/USA will never give up on Ukraine. They will keep sending weapons as long as Ukraine has soldiers.
And that is because Ukrainian soldiers mean nothing to them, they want the lithium and other metals and resources of the country... not to mention that rich black soil everyone keeps bollocking on about. Russia has massively increased its food production without such rich black soils so I would say I is overrated.
But it costs the West more. Materially, and in terms of their influence around the world. It's all crumbling. Russia needs to keep up the effort. And prevent the West so easily walking away from what it has started.
The Global South is watching, and this damage to the west is not just the money they donate to the thieves of kiev, money is getting stolen at both ends, which is why the war is so popular in the west... people are making their fortunes... but the sanctions and BS from the US is destroying the international organisations they control to run the world... countries are dropping western currencies and are seeing western countries are not safe places to have money or assets, BRICS is the real winner, and the west is driving countries to join because it is clearly crazy.
But as long as Russia is fighting the way it is , the west will be able to cobble enough together to make the next 3 years look like the last 3 years.
Maybe you are watching a different conflict... this was an attack by about 1,000 men and hardware they don't have a lot of... they are losing twice that number each day. The 2,000 being killed each day are probably conscripts who barely know how to clean their rifle let alone shoot it, but these 1,000 troops are elite forces that would be trained in sabotage and ambushes and all sorts of other skills your average soldier has not clue about. These are the guys getting chewed up in this little incursion.
If they had any brains they would have packed civilian clothes and when they crossed the line buggered off and changed clothes and go find and woman and forget about this American war.
I guess if Russia is fine with fighting at this level for another 5 years ,
If things remain at this level they wont be fighting another 5 years... Kiev is getting desperate.... they might not even last 5 months.
What you need to understand is that even if it takes 10 years then that is what it takes.
There is no rush, Russia needs to do this right and not be soft or nice to the west.
You can always count on Russia to give the western public , Nafo, the mainstream media and all the retards exactly what they want. Everyone is high on the ukraine war again.
The people of the west are goldfish... 3 second memory. It makes no difference for Russia if the western public notices or not. Propaganda victories are meaningless because the west does not get any say in this anyway and the Russians don't care what the west thinks.
Hollywood can make out that Kiev is winning... well why do they need all this money and weapons if they are winning?
Most of the bean counters in western governments probably see Ukrainians as nazi Russians anyway so they wont want either side to win outright...
But it is a huge part of history happening right now.
The west is destroying itself in this conflict, so it is probably better than it does not end in the next few days.
If anyone needs to be fired in this situation , it's most likely the head of the natl security council and whoever makes these deals with the US.
Everyone in Russian politics knows the US can't be trusted about anything, but if they think they have an agreement then they can at least expect compliance for a while, or pretend compliance... which is probably all they expect from those lying
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China is mad. They were talking with Ukraine about peace recently. They get swindled like this constantly too. Morons
China understands war is destruction and expensive and not good for business except for ghouls. The west are ghouls.
[quote]Russia has 100k dead by now, if not more. Nobody cares about Ukrainians in the West. They're just useful idiots and will be scapegoats when all this is over. ['/quote]
Even if that figure was true it was necessary. You think sending a 3 million man army in there and having Ukrainian soldiers acting like Rambo for the next 3 years hitting rear area troops and supply depots etc etc will result in less deaths?
The main message: Russia must now understand that the Americans are ready to commit any atrocities and crimes through the hands of the Ukrainians, and the way to avoid this is to retreat and surrender.
That is the message, but the Russians can simply ignore that message and continue to destroy the Ukraine as a country.
As Medvedev pointed out, now Russia can start hitting Ukraine territory and bring the war to the Ukrainian people and let them decide how long this war should take.
The first consequence of this attack should be that previous offers of Ukraine withdrawing from Russian Federation territory as a requirement for a ceasefire and peace talks will now require a 300km buffer zone beyond RF territory that the Ukrainian forces will have to withdraw to before a ceasefire and peace talks can begin.
FP only the West does not want any negotiations anyway.
Economics will talk eventually... there are plenty in the west that heard that American politician talk about 12 trillion in value in resources in the Ukraine and about how this conflict is not just about seizing it for the US, but also about denying it to Putin and Xi. And a dumb person would agree, but the smart person would ask why creating an actual enemy... not rival... an actual enemy out of Russia with thousands of trillions in resources, makes any sense at all.
The average guy in the street will never see a cent of that 12 trillion that prick was talking about, this is about the 1% in the US getting slightly richer, and the tax bill is going to be enormous... not just funding the war, but the economic damage of pushing Russia and China and BRICS together and other countries in the global south to them too.
pening the Kiev direction is unlikely. This operation requires at least 100k troops and equipment, just enough to eventually stand at Koyiv.
The went there before with rather less, and a proper siege and proper shelling and real destruction would make things rather different this time.
I said they should advance towards Kiev, this has the effect of lengthening the front and panicking the Ukrainian leadership, forcing them to divert units. And then we'll see.
If the Russians did that I could see the Rada running to Lvov or further...
I do think Kiev should be taken but it should not be rushed. Such urban battles are immensely costly. For now the focus should be on trying to approach the city from several directions.
Just stripping resources and men from the front lines and the borders will effect their ability to advance on the current front line too...