Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Unfortunately if the quotes are to believed they received 1 million rounds over a few weeks from Nk and in 7 months the west only managed 300,000 rounds,it might be considered bad for Russia but they acquired more artillery in a few weeks than the west provided in 7 months to Ukraine

Makes perfect sense promised 1 million rounds they only delivered 300,000 in 7 months,are they going to produce 600,000 in the next few months no

Who said that exactly

Yes, but does anyone have the figures for what Ukraine itself is producing? Or what's being "donated" by Poland?

I don't think so , guess work at best and even at that no reliable figures at all ,

The Russians always have two plans in warfare. Plan A is to overwhelm the enemy with meat assaults. Plan B is to overwhelm the enemy with meat assaults. There is no plan c. Either they succeed in the first two plans in the short or long term. Ultimately they hope to exhaust the enemys ammunition before they exhaust their own manpower, and that might ultimately happen. But if it means using up 10,000 men to gain a few metres or a propaganda victory, Putin and the Russians will do it. Human life means nothing to them.

I can see Putin massively ramping up conscription after the March 24 presidential election. We could be talking conscription of a 1 million man army, just to try secure victory.

At that time the alternative to saving Russia was a lot worse.

The alternative was a very efficient, much less corrupt, outright murderous and far more technically advanced killing machine that was very close to getting the Bomb.

The allies should have ploughed on to Moscow in 1945 but the appetite and political will was completely spent at that stage.

They obviously have more approaches than that because the response to the insurgency in Afghanistan was not to flood the valleys with countless grunts. The response in WW2 was much more about overwhelming numbers, but this was an existential conflict for Russia where it was a case of by any means necessary.

The Ukraine war is perhaps existential for Putin, as a failure there carries a huge risk of the end of his political career or worse, but for his people? I don't think so.

Russian 1: Wanna hear a joke about how yesterday we bombed our own units?

Russian 2 : Lucky we missed them all. And I don't smoke.

Avdiivka action (heavily edited).

Lets review shall we.

WW1 - mass slaughter on front line which was in turn the primary cause of the Russian revolution. No effort to save Russian lives.

Winter war with Finland - mass slaughter of Russian army by much smaller force. Sole strategy was to overwhelm Finland with numbers which they eventually did at a horendous cost to themselves.

WW2 - overwhelmed the Nazis with numbers. Germans could simply not supply themselves with enough ammo to kill Russians. Russian training was minimal, life expectancty short. Why spend time training someone thats going to be dead in a week or two?

Afghan War - took a beating, did indeed flood the valleys with conscripts who were easy targets.

Chrchen Wars - same story, poorly trained conscripts killed by the thousands. Plan C was to flatten the place.

Ukraine war - no huge improvement, pooly trained conscripts sent in to overwhelm the Ukrainians. As with previous wars human wave attacks in broad daylight a feature, with todays human wave climbing over the bodies of yesterdays wave. This is how the Russians do war and no-one is expecting it to change anytime soon.