Reply To: Russian Tensions
“We should see the Russians taking advantage of the encirclement of Bahkmut and by-passing it to capture the more strategic cities,”
No shit Sherlock. Just as I’ve been saying. But it’s a stalemate you jokers cheered in unison. LOL.
“towns and highways that were the reason offered by TS for such a relentless and sustained assault on Bahkmut.”
Yes. Bakhmut is the linchpin of the Ukrainian position in Donbass. With it’s collapse the dominos will all fall.
“Having sacrificed the convict battalions of Wagner”
All-in is vomiting up MSM propaganda (yet again!). Wagner has no “convict battalions” a crudely pathetic attempt to associate Russia with the “evil Stalinist USSR”.
“and leaving them to mop up the depleted defeated surrounded Ukrainians in Bahkmut,”
No, the newly mobilised reserves will be doing that.
“I await the Big Push by the Russian regular army to gain ground.”
Hold on, I’m confused. This whole time you’ve been saying it’s a WWI redux stalemate, have you not? How is such a “big push” possible if things are as you say?
“Unless substantial progress is made, then indeed it is a Pyrrhic victory.”
Lol, verbatim western propaganda copium. The victory is in no way Pyrrhic. Russian losses are minimal. It’s fighting capacity is in no way reduced. This word “Pyrrhic”, it does not mean what you think it means. LOL
“As YMS indicated by mentioning Vuhlbar, Russian successes on other parts of the eastern front have not been resounding successes.”
If you measure success, as the Russian military does, as demilitarising Ukraine, then it is a spectacular success.
“It seems an early Spring has brought the mud to bog down any armour advance which can only benefit the defenders. The drawn-out defence of Bahkmut has allowed defence lines to be strengthened and new ones to be built.”
The last defence lines took eight years to build. The new ones? A few months? LOL
“TS may have forgotten but I recall he predicted a Winter offensive when the ground was frozen.”
Yes, and if you believe Scott Ritter it began weeks ago, just not the Hollywood “big arrow” type. Those are needlessly costly in attacker’s lives so they’re slowly and methodically mincing the enemy with concentrated artillery fire and meanwhile throwing the Ukrainians off balance across the entire line of contact to prevent them from amassing forces for a counter offensive. As you are consistently wrong about everything you say regarding this war, I don’t know why you even bother to speculate. Or why anyone listens to you.
“Now it will be Summer before the ground hardens again and by then the West-supplied armour will have been deployed to the battlefront and will prove an obstacle for the Russian tank thrust. Ukraine’s shell shortage may also be resolved by Summer.”
Copium. Pure, unadulterated copium. Hahahahaahahahahahaha!
“But once again we should not assume we are the Chairbourne Generals but if it took almost a year to take Bahkmut, I’m guessing any swift capture of crucial cities is unlikely to develop.”
Because you’ve forgotten about Russia’s mobilised reservists. The Russians were outnumbered back then and they were still winning decisively. Now they outnumber the Ukrainians. The math doesn’t lie. Ukraine is toast.
“TS refers to Mariupol. Not to the loss of Kherson or Kharkiv.”
They were strategic withdrawals with almost no loss of Russian life or equipment. Moreover, the Ukrainian forces were decimated in the process.
“And never has he mentioned the total failure to take Odessa.”
LOL. Maybe because there hasn’t been any attempt to take Odessa? How can you fail at something you haven’t attempted? Are you sniffing petrol All-in. Whatever is going on upstairs ain’t right.