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I am also convinced Bakhmut will hold out.

The orcs are out of tanks. They are out of shells. They are even running low on convicts for use as cannon fodder.

The videos like the above of desperate orc human wave attacks only show their desperation.

200k orcs are now dead with a multiple of that wounded. The coming Ukrainian counter offensive with all the new NATO toys will come like a thunderclap and blow the orcs away.

Honestly I don't think it's anything to do with ukraine,I think it's just individuals who see an active thread and decide they need some attention by attempting to wind people up , last nights effort I found quite amusing,I could have ignored but i found the interactions funny, compared to some of the other contributions to the thread yesterday and the day before,

It's nothing more than attention seeking for whatever reason they feel the need to ,at they were upfront about it,

compared to others

Reznikov is some lad 😂

I think it's down to the simple reason is they don't have the anti tank weapons in their inventory is yes they have the kornet Which isn't exactly man portable and easy to menuver in fast moving battles,the doctrine has always been large numbers of tanks and bmps blitzkrieging area in an attempt to over run defenses,but in Ukraine they had their own tanks,bmps and artillery but most importantly 90,000+ modern and highly portable anti tank weapons sent by eu and Nato countries,they have also seem to have lost their artillery advantage,we are definitely seeing more and more lone Ukrainian vehicles very much carrying out kamikaze styles runs into Russian forces especially in and around bakhmut, which suggests that the Ukrainans are either running lite when it comes to tanks and other armour or they are withholding their main tank and ifv for a bigger combined forces counter offensive,

We've seen in Vuhledar recently Russians loosing 20 -30 tanks in single engagements but we're not seeing Ukrainian tanks being used in the same numbers to counter the Russian tanks,

Russia doesn't have the numbers to make a significant dent in the frontline using human waves, so it begs the question of what tactics it intends to employ in the longer term to advance in a more rapid fashion. I do not believe that even in the most authoritarian state would it be long-term politically sustainable for large swathes of the population to be essentially frog marched off to war with a greater than 50 percent chance they'll die in the first few weeks of deployment.

Just watched a video confirming Ukraine has doubled its himars range and is also due delivery of a Boeing made air to surface glide bomb with similar accuracy and range of 74km.

Yes Mariupol was hit again last night or this morning,

An interesting radio report from Moscow yesterday on attitudes of ordinary Russian Muscovites to the war. On the one hand, was said they were generally opposed to the invasion/ war but also that the prevailing opinion there now was one of concern for the 'survival of Russia'. That the narrative that this is Russia V NATO has been established in their heads. Even though technically literate citizens can & do use VPNs to access outside media.

That narrative is clearly screwed up but a dangerous one as it feeds into support for a military economy and conscription etc. I don't know what is being done in the propaganda war front to tackle this in Russia but clearly lives can be saved and this war brought to a quicker conclusion if that narrative can be changed. It is surely the duty of all Russian citizens living outside their state to get this word back and persuade their families, friends and neighbours that this was a disastrous attack on their close neighbours and must be halted asap. To sit in silence and watch on whilst having the capacity to influence is thoroughly disgusting moral cowardice. And feck the long arm of the Russian secret security - they can't monitor everyone.

Sometimes the Ukrainians even use anti tank weapons in Bakhmut:

Seems effective, particularly as they seem to steer it right through the door.

There's an option in the profile to turn off other users' signatures, it's quite handy.

There is a way of occupying territory even if its people don't want you there, but it involves slaughtering every man, woman and child until the occupied are too weak/depleted to really fight back. Maybe only adopting out the really young children if you're feeling 'merciful'.

Seeing how little respect Russia has for the life of its own citizens, it's not much of a leap in my imagination that Russia would suppress Ukraine to whatever extent was deemed necessary in order to control it, international opinion be damned, and this is exactly why every effort ought to be made to help Ukraine push Russian forces out right now. The hand wringing over how terrible the war is (and it is terrible) misses the point that it would look like a sideshow in comparison to the genocide Russia would enact if it were ever to establish full control of Ukraine and still meet partisan resistance.

It's been pretty much standard procedure for the US to win wars from the Gulf War onwards, and not win the peace.