Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Try reading the last sentence.

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It's Ukraine that has the man power and equipment issues, not Russia.

Bakhmut

I have no bias either way. All I have said is the Ukraine counter offensive has failed, which it has. If it succeeded I'd be saying so.

As for bias, you can hardly accuse 90+% of this thread of not being biased.

They are biased toward a country, as I said before, most of them couldn't point Ukraine out on a map prior to the war.

What some want here is facts to be ignored and emotion to run riot and of course they don't like it when someone points out inconvenient truths.

You continue to reply despite stating you have me blocked. The only thing you're right about is that the mods should wrap your knuckles for consistent and blatant attempts to bully a poster. You've done this consistently and now you're doing it by proxy. It's not right.

I only try to state the truth without bias either way on any topic. Those who are biased can't take it.

Actually he was eventually thread banned from Brexit for exactly what he is doing now. But sadly this is CA/IMHO and not politics.

A cold winter would probably be much better for an offense than a mild one. Frozen ground is hard, wet ground will be muddy. Also, it would be much easier to spot defensive positions with thermal positions in cold weather - although that will probably be true in any winter conditions.

The expectations for the summer offense always seems like fantasy and seemed to have all hinged on the false narrative that the Ukraine army was an elite force - it's not. I read articles last year stating that the Ukraine army was now the best in the world. Many seem to have bought into this. They expected Ukraine to be able to pull off combined arms maneuvers without drilling them and without the west even proving a key part of it - air power. Even the platforms that were supplied were given in such small numbers that Ukraine probably feels like they cannot risk them in large maneuvers.

The reality is that Ukraine is an amateur force. Yes, it is highly motivated but that alone doesn't make up for a lack of experience and expertise.

Hopefully they are learning enough on the job to gain the expertise to make meaningful gains - but I doubt that will happen until I well into next year. Ramping up the supply of new platforms and systems will also be key to that effort.

Ukraine has long range missiles, 9/11 taught us that. Can't they load of jet with explosives, and fly it into the Kremlin ?

Soooo close. Would have been the most famous drone footage had it been able to catch it.

I don't believe a single fighter will ever be delivered to Ukraine.

As I have remarked before Western governments know how this will end already. I have always seen this as a foregone conclusion regardless of Russian incompetence.

That does not mean I in any way shape or form agree with this act of murderous thuggery by Russia. I most certainly do not.

There is a clear problem in that Ukranian propganda has been accepted as truth and it should no more be accepted as truth as Russian. They are more than capable of the exact same thing.

Ukraine steadfastly refuses to publish it's dead in this war. They'd rather put out out mystical and patently absurd figures on Russian dead daily. They have no problem doing that.

In August in the counter offensive ALONE US officials estimated Ukrainian losses at close to 70,000 troops.

Now, you can all choose to live in a dream world but I am adamant Ukraine is in a very serious situation with man power and equipment and this war will soon be over. I have no reason to believe it won't be Ukraine starting those negotiations which I think will involve the partition of the country on current lines.

Maybe I'm totally wrong but I see no evidence to suggest otherwise thus far. If Ukraine had smashed defence lines and their losses were a fraction of what they are it might be different.