Comments by "Tx240" (@Texas240) on "Ukraine Really Isn't Worried About Russia's Offensive! 14 Feb 23 Ukraine Daily Update" video.

Interestingly, on Jake Broe channel, he was recently mentioning that some comments were expressing frustration that Ukraine was giving ground to Russia and not counterattacking. What you describe today matches my reply on Jake's channel. Ukraine is allowing Russia to keep bleeding themselves out if Russia is happy to do so (never interrupt your opponent while he's making a mistake). When Russia has tired themselves out, Ukraine can swing back. It's much less costly in terms of blood and resources to defend and give up ground instead of lives. And, we're talking about meters or kilometers at most, not like Russia is able to gain any inertia and in a location that isn't strategically valuable.
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@PineApple-bs8rt - Hello, Russian bot! Thanks for replying and fueling the algorithm! For humans who might run across the bot's comment, Russia does not have a manpower advantage, in general, and certainly not the necessary manpower to attack. The general rule of thumb is that an attacking force wants at least a 3 to 1 advantage. However, that is assuming training, experience, and equipment parity. Contrary to the bot's statement, Russia doesn't enjoy parity, nevermind superiority, in any of these metrics. Russia gutted its training command before mobilization in order to try and fill combat units. Then, when mobilization began, not only was Russia trying to train new recruits with no prior military experience (for the lucky ones who didn't immediately go to the front lines), it was also trying to rebuild its training command. Removing experienced troops from the front lines to do training directly impacts the capability of units on the front. The lack of NCO structure further negatively impacts training in both Russia and the front line units. This lack of training is evident even in the way armored units are acting in such a way that is throwing away vehicles to Ukrainian artillery. Foot soldiers are suffering the same fate. While both sides certainly are taking casualties, it's a MUCH more dangerous situation for the Russians who are often attempting to cross open ground and where Russians don't even enter into shooting range of Ukrainian positions before being wiped out by artillery. Ukraine has the benefit of fighting from prepared defenses and being able to fall back, forcing the Russians to repeat the cycle. Russia is scraping the bottom of the barrel for personal equipment and doesn't have artillery ammunition supply to maintain its previous rate of fire. Saying Russia has advanced equipment in great supply on the battlefield is just silly. The sad fact is that Russia is trying to get the mobilized troops killed before they have to feed them too much and hoping the human wave can overwhelm Ukrainian positions. Russia is probably needing over 10 to 1 advantage in manpower to force Ukraine to give up ground, as described above. That means Russia is probably suffering losses at about 5 to 8 times that of Ukraine where Ukraine does fall back and suffering casualties at over 10 to 1 where Ukraine doesn't fall back. The numbers are truly staggering. In a month, Russia is losing more soldiers killed in action than in 10 years of their fighting in Afghanistan. Russia is on pace lose all soldiers they mobilize within 12 months. Without a stop to the fighting, there is no way Russia can rebuild a training system and properly equip troops without losing ground at the front. Russia really is bleeding itself out. Any Russian troops that aren't dead by April when Ukraine looks at going on the offensive will be worn out mentally and physically from malnourishment and surviving through the cold and horrors of their march across open ground.
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