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It doesn't but it's a sad reflection how Russia can make gains when supporting drops. The next big Russia assaults will be telling. They're lining up for Kupyansk, Chasiv Yar and Robotnye. Time will tell how successful they'll be.

We don't want a similar scenario to 2022 when they captured Popasna and started to make progress.

I hope this is going somewhere

Keep trying, Its a futile excercice.

Now, back to the point I asked you what bad tactics Ukraine used while defending Bakhmut and Adviika?

And why do you persist in incorrectly using the word futile? Is getting surrounded futile at worst? is having to retreat futile? if so why?

Why is creating kill zones and killing thousands upon thousands enemy soldiers from a relatively easy to defend position not a smart defence?

I went looking for Irelands 131st latest city and all the lists stop at 100.

Athenry, population under 4000.

There's so grim reading from Ukrainian soldiers who've pulled out and it was depressing until I read the Russian soldier accounts who were on the attack. They've had it rough here and won't fancy a few more attacks like this.

Ukraine used the time to build 4 defence lines west from adviika, The rest of your drivel comprises one assumption stacked on the other which in the end doesn't make for a coherent argument. imo

Like I mentioned before, I would trust Zelenski's military on the ground to make the right decisions regarding retreating or advancing etc. And all this big push by the Russians just to give a boost to Putin and his so-called election victory and anniversary of the invasion.

Don't get me wrong. You are of course entitled to your own opinion but If you point out a potential risk and then somehow state that the potential risk was down to stubbornness without even knowing jack **** about what is going on I will call you out on that nonsense yes.

IMO The problem with removing Putin boils down to how/what transition will take place. They do have nearly 6000 nuclear warheads, last thing you want is an uncontrolled transition of power with a lot of infighting. For now Russia is ''stable'. An unstable Russia would pose an even bigger danger to the world which could make the conflict in Ukraine a small one in comparison, I think its one of the reasons the US was drip-feeding Ukraine with aid in the hope Putin would come to his senses and pulled out. I rather have Putin at the reigns than an all out civil war within Russia or an even more unhinged puppet at the reigns.

(Yes), I suppose that has been the US calculation about appropriate level of military aid to Ukraine (strategy of checking Russian moves indefinitely, vs alternative of go all in aiding Ukraine to win, let the chips fall where they may for Putin and Russian regime and rest of us on the day after [maybe unfortunate thing to call it!]).

Always thought it was very risky in its own way, and I think evidence is building that they messed it up, and as the war drags on events like the chaotic politics in Washington, Russia's ability to evade sanctions and willingness of autocratic allies to support them, are coming into play.

Looks like the coke plant will be abandoned as well. Russia already raising flags in part of it.

But let's be honest as depressing as it is this tactic of defending settlements until they're destroyed then pulling back to a new one is exactly how the Russians won so many wars in the past.

This war is totally changing the thoughts about future wars. No one thought that artillery shells would be a factor or minefields. The US especially assumed that war would be high tech. I heard a discussion about a big rethink regarding North Korea & how they might be encouraged to attack the South based on the situation in Ukraine.

France fell in 6 weeks in 1940. Germany advanced from Poland to Moscow in 3 months in 1941. The allies advanced from Normandy to Berlin in 9 months in 1944/45. Measuring Russias advance as an aggressive force against those historic advances then their invasion has been an abject failure and utterly pointless. Therefore the 2 week predictions of the spring of 2022 are not far off the mark. This invasion effectively stalled in April 2022 . Putin is just keeping this invasion on life support but it is easily one of the slowest most cumbersome invasions of all time and most other countries would have thrown their hat at it at this stage.

Nazis and Napoleon wars to name two. Look at the amount of equipment Russia lost for this one town. It's not sustainable unless they gain momentum and increase gains for similar or less losses.