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It Will Take Months for NATO Weapons to Reach Ukraine
Stacked like cords of wood, dead and decaying Russian soldiers are cluttering up the battlefield around Bakhmut.
Months ago, these boys and men were going peacefully about life in Russian towns and cities, today their purpose is to catch enough bullets being fired by Ukrainian defenders to distract them long enough so other men and boys like them — only they are for the time being alive — can flank the Ukrainian defenders.
The great Russian army into which billions were poured every year for the last 20 years is so poorly supplied that it has one effective strategy now available: Meat waves.
When you are an officer and you have the luxury of not caring how many of your soldiers are killed, you have a secret weapon that most armies don’t have. This truly Russian approach is slowly turning the tide in battle for the crossroads town of Bakhmut.
Ukrainian defenders are firing their weapons so rapidly and constantly that the weapons are structurally failing. With weapons overheating, our heroes in Ukraine are forced to take breaks from killing the Russian invaders.
