cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/45694113
Not that CNN is a good source, the reason I posted the CNN link is because it is indicative that CNN is concluding this publicly and emphatically. It shows the calculus of US mainstream media is changing towards Ukraine, which is not something it has really done for quite awhile.
I think that calling this a winning streak in the first place deeply misunderstands the dynamics of warfare. Ukraine have been intentionally trading land for time, allowing the Russians to advance at a contained, manageable rate, while inflicting a heavy and continuous cost on them in materiel and manpower.
Ironically, this is exactly how the Soviets defeated the Nazi invasion.
I’m not an expert but from my understanding the soviet’s tactics were quite a bit different from Ukraines.
The soviet’s continuously threw away lives to stop the German advance. Constant attacks tossing way soldiers lives but slowly degrading the German supplies and manpower. The Soviet’s also lost most of their industry early on in the war. Most of it was located in regions that Germany conquered quickly or their airpower wrecked in the early months of the war.
The only reason they were able to stop the German advance at all was because of the massive amount of goods and weapons supplied by England and the U.S.
Ukraine has set up heavily defended kill zones with multi-layered defenses. Russia’s continuous attacks are chewed up in theses zones. Eventually Russia degrades the defenses enough that Ukraine retreats to the next prepared zone and starts over fresh. Ukraine has slowly lost ground but Russias entire Soviet era stockpiles have been decimated with these tactics.
You’re giving way too much credit to soviet “tactics”
Also both didn’t have another realistic option.
True. But then a lot of strategy is knowing how to recognize the realistic option.
Love that you can’t even read it without paying.
? I could read the entire article without a paywall
You just read your one free monthly article
I click and start scrolling down and it pops up saying something about subscribe to get unlimited articles and streaming. You must not have hit your “free reads” limit.
it was on winning streak?
Over the past four years Russia has been ever so slowly gaining small amounts of territory, bit by bit.
I guess that can be described as a “winning streak”, because if that continues infinitely without change, eventually in a couple of hundred years they would have all of Ukraine’s land.
However, that ignores the cost of war, and how Russia will pay for keeping that up.
I think the article is clear about what it means by that. It mentions that technically Russia was slowly gaining territory, although at a cost that might not be sustainable. And now those gains have slightly reversed - at least for now (and hopefully that trend will continue).
The same sort of winning the US is doing in Iran
oh thats so much winning, they must be tired of winning by now
Lol. Fuck war.
Starting a war isn’t good, but now that Russia has started it, it’s important for Ukraine to continue receiving support to regain its territory and assert its territorial integrity, or Russia will inevitably start another war to take more. Allowing Russia to keep any of Ukraine’s territory is a tacit acceptance of its geopolitical tactics.
What is it good for?
