• Madison420@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    Russia really doesn’t. You’d think they do but they don’t between grift and fraud they barely have infantry equipment let alone modern air defense missiles. It’s why they keep ending up fielding cold war era equipment.

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      That doesn’t make sense given that they’ve been steadily advancing. There’s no substitute for munitions, and there’s no hiding their scarcity. Also, the reason armies around the world, including the US and Ukraine, still field Cold War Era equipment is that apocalyptic stockpiles of it were made on both sides so it’s abundant, dirt cheap and largely parts compatible with the equipment that replaced it.

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        Russia? Steadily has to be a euphemism right? Because it’s several thousand days, tens of billions of dollars and what a million dead over projected estimates. That’s not evidence of incoming victory that’s evidence of attrition and stagnation against a non peer nation.

        It’s Manchester United going 0-0 with an incredibly low ranking pre kindergarten team woke chanting about how close it was.

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          No, steadily is the word.

          Because it’s several thousand days, tens of billions of dollars and what a million dead over projected estimates.

          What estimates?

          That’s evidence of attrition

          Yes, Russia had been using an attrition strategy for most of this war, using drones and shelling to exhaust their opponent’s reserves of troops and equipment. The reason this has been working is that Russia can field more troops and is producing more equipment.

          It’s Manchester United going 0-0 with an incredibly low ranking pre kindergarten team woke chanting about how close it was.

          Then you’ll have to forgive my confusion as to how and why the kindergarten team now fully controls one fifth of Man U

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            Putins comments to reporters said two weeks, the intercepted plans lay out a two week strategy those are estimates.

            You get that attrition is the dumbest possible thing to use a strategy when you start a surprise war with an overwhelming disparity of force right? Like choosing the way most wars are lost as a strategy reenforces the fact they’re quagmired.

            Again you miss the point, a group of grown men shouldn’t not lose slower they should have already won and handily at that.