Get Real! wrote:Londonrake wrote:Concurrently, what was hyped as an overwhelming, short, blitzkrieg war (“over by Christmas”) shows indications of becoming bogged down in important areas. With the prospect of a long insurgency in the future. The Ukrainian’s are proving to be a harder nut to crack than anticipated.
Not good news for Putin. Let’s hope he doesn’t do anything to make matters even worse.
No, I don’t agree with this at all!
Some people here hinted that you had a military career but judging by your input, I very much doubt that such a career was of a strategic or fighting nature. Here is the reality:
In the space of 4 days…
* Russia has captured about 1/5th of the Ukraine’s territory
* They have destroyed close to 100% of the enemy’s anti-aircraft systems.
* They have destroyed their entire navy.
* They captured dozens of towns and all sea ports.
* They have the Ukrainian government pinned down in the capital which is surrounded.
* Russia has published the numbers of Ukrainian equipment destroyed on a handful of websites, and they are quite embarrassing for the Ukraine, but Putin doesn’t care enough to brag… he just wants rapid victory.
There is no question about Russia’s speed and ferocity in this confrontation but they’ve had considerable losses (ie: 5,000? troops), as is expected when you’re on the attack and especially at such never-before-seen speed.
NB: More importantly, all this success was achieved by a Russia at fighting level #1... they haven't cranked it up yet.
Considering the fact Russia gave heads up to Ukraine that it had 100,000+ troops on it’s border with hardware to go with it, which gave the Ukrainian military lots of time to take up defensive positions and to Russia’s credit for not “carpet bombing” Ukraine for few weeks to soften the Ukraine’s military before invading, you can say that Russia has done well thus far. If Russia did lose 5,000 soldiers in 4 days, that is a huge loss, and if that is the case, Russia is not about to walk away from Ukraine now empty handed.
