Comments by "joe bloggs" (@joebloggs430) on "He Stormed Mariupol and Met the Enemy Face to Face" video.
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@godfreydebouillon8807 Sorry bud but you're way off there. 300+ Wagner troops attacked a small number of US troops in Syria and it was total slaughter but not for the US who had no losses. Also in various parts of Africa Wagner troops, the best Russia has to offer, have performed poorly and Wagner + Russia lost a lot of reputation. They were even kicked out in some places because they could even handle the ragtag local insurgent rebels they were up against.
As for the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has used artillery, artilllery, artillery ... and artillery to make progress. Their tactics were to move forward until they made contact, then pull back a few km and use massive artillery to pound the site of contact into oblivion and then move forward again until they made contact and repeat.
It's been clear since the beginning that Ukraine lacked firepower and range, but where the troops made contact Ukraine was mauling the Russian side.
Wagner were the only ones making significant progress in contact situations, and they were the best equipped, most heavily armed troops and their edge was their ability and experience in combined arms operations, wich is what Nato trains.
So the only situations where Russian trops were defeating Ukraine troops in direct contact was where Ukr was facing troops with the same kind of combined arms ability but 10x the experience in urban combat especially.
Just look at Mariupol and Bakhmut, do they scream 'superior Russian troops winning hand to hand' or 'utter annihaltion from artillery bombardment' ?
Azovstal was a prime example. It was the only place where the Russian artillery and even direct air assault could not wipe their targets out and in the end the defenders surrendered after several months of holding out. So the fact is that Russia never defeated the defenders of Azovstal / Mariupol.
That might sound like splitting hairs when you consider the 'defeat' of Russian in Kherson but in this case it is true.
Russia was not able to defeat the defenders by arms so they laid siege to them and eventually they surrendered after running out of ammo, food and medical supplies.
Without the Russian 10x advantage in artillery this invasion would have ended with their defeat in Kyiv.
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@@marietsuki ? So let me get this straight, the real problem is not hundreds and hundreds of years of Rusisan Imperialism but instead the problem is the attitude of the Ukrainians, who think they are better than everyone else, including the people of the 'Russian Empire' ? So the Grand Duke of Moscow suddenly declared that the was the King of everyone and Everythign and took the name of the 'Rus' even though Moscow has no historical connection with the Russ, and declared that the Duchy Of Moscow was now the 'Russian Empire', and put everyone East of Moscow to the sword, but the problem is the attitued of the Ukrainian people trying to pretend that they are different to Russians, even though Ukrainian came first, and has nothing to do with Russian and never actually did ? Is it possible to get any more delusional ? The 'Russians are fake Rus' thing is a historical fact, not something invented by 'Ukrainian Nationalists'.. It seems that the real problem is that the existence of Ukraine just makes it impossible to ignore the false claims and inventions of the 'Russian Empire' and now Putin has drawn the attention of the entire world onto this fact. The proof for all of this was recognised in Russia a long time ago, because it is all a matter of fact, so there was no reason to hide it or try to deny it. Now Putin's Nationalism has backfired and the world has researched the issue and discovered the true facts. Russia is a historical deception and Putin is the man responsible for bringing this to the attention of the world.
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@andrarak7383 The fact is that "Russia and The Russian Empire" was created as a work of fiction which was never recognised by the rest of the world in the lifetime of it's delusional creator. A lot like the modern NovoRossia / 'Russian World' which is a total work of fiction that not even the most delusional of Putin's 'allies' actually recognise, they just go along with whatever insane BS that comes out of his mouth because they know that Putin is the new Tsar, who will end his life like the old Tsar. Putin will send you and your brothers / friends to die in Ukraine because your lives mean nothing to him. Putin calle the people of Donbas 'Russian Speakers' because not even he could call them Russians, because they are not Russians. So If the lives of actual Russians, born and bred in Russia,mean nothing to him, which is the proven fact of the matter, then the lives of 'Russian Speakers' can only mean less than nothing, in which case it is not physically possible that he invaded Ukraine ( which it is proven that he did ) to protect the 'Russian Speakers', so all your Russian men have died for nothing except the ego and delusions of an old man from Siberia. Siberia is not actually part of Russia, it was part of the Russian Empire, but not part of Russia, so I guess you could say that just like Stalin, Putin is not even Russian. No wonder he is so wililing to kill hundreds of thousands of actual Russians for his own gain.
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