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NATO Tanks Will Soon Reshape the Battlefield
Given the state of the Russian military, it could mean a lot of chaotic retreating Russian conscripts
Russia’s winter — not sure what to call it — sort of offensive has in odd ways been successful but it’s hard to say exactly for whom.
Thousands of expendable Russian lives — that’s what they are in Russia — have been reduced to bumps in the road, literally. The massive waves of flesh that swarmed Ukrainian positions oddly accomplished quite a bit in turning this war into a World War-I style horrific, long slog.”
Sure, the death and destruction on the Russian side have rid the country of a cohort of citizens that were not just economically unproductive but just drained the society of resources — this is not my thinking, but Russian thinking,” Through sheer persistence, however, and a complete lack of concern for how many of its own troops remaining rotting on the battlefield, Russia has managed to distract and kill enough Ukrainians to pretty much encircle the strategically-questionable Bakhmut.
The New York Times recently reported that the Ukrainians, who tend to survive at higher rates during battles than the charging Russians, are physically and psychologically exhausted. Russia hurls waves of flesh at the positions and…
