Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "‘Obstacle Belts From Hell:’ Retired General on Ukraine’s Slow Counteroffensive | WSJ" video.

Notice at how Russia throws men at obstacles at Vuhledar, and Ukraine adjusted their offensive to secure a win. Russian artillery losses are happening at a rate of twice the war's average. Ukrainians clearly have a plan. The best way to not get punched is to take a scapel and cut the opponent's tendons. You may have a hand, but without tendons you can't make a fist.
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Ukrainian troops themselves are saying the Bradley is superior to Soviet IFVs. They speak of surviving deadly anti-tank missile attacks that would have killed them in BMPs/BTRs and will never ride in a Soviet IFV again. Seems like Western tech is indeed superior. Ukrainian troops live to fight another day despite the vehicles being hit, Russian troops don't because their vehicles don't prioritize crew survival.
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Yeah when you spend 20 years bragging about your armed forces and threatning nukes you should be able to overcome geography and weather.
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 @Sergei__v Russian economy is only growing according to Rosstat figures. Literally nobody else can get number on the Russian economy as the Russian goveremt clamped down.
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@artemdzh2836 Job well done, tell that to the families of every Russian soldier killed on camera in Vuhledar. It was a massacre, people killed for "straining resources". Ukraine can easily trade away resources for Russian lives. You can get gifted resources and even buy some with the little money they have. People are lost forever. This war will wreck Russia, it's nationwide suicide. But it cost Ukraine resources. Job well done.
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They're not stuck, they're capturing terrain.
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Yet one of the biggest complaints in the Ukrainian army is that mobilization brought back Soviet-trained officers who are considered incompetent compared to post-2014 officers. The Ukrainian soldiers themselves state that NATO training is great and the Soviet-era Ukrainians are getting them killed because they were taught under Moscow rule.
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@stinyg Ka-52s fly under the AD umbrella. Radar is physically blocked by the horizon (Earth is round). Helicopters don't need to destroy the AD to fly inside their own terrain and lob a 10km range missile. The Vikhr missile has greater range than MANPADS. Remember the helicopters brought down inside Russia? Ukrainian AD brought them down. They thought they were safe so they flew relatively high. They only survive by hugging the ground. Which meas AD is active.
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@tariqreid1866 Russia's supply chain is based on road and rail networks. Severing them nullifies the supplies. That's why in the Kharkiv offensive Ukraine went after Kupiansk and Russia is fighting to get it back. Losing a rail hub town devastates supplies.
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@supermarno1980 There's trainers who got calls and messages from Ukrainian fighters who thanked them for the training. Prior to training they'd have 50% of their wounded die. Now they can save the lives of the wounded. The training worked.
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@olekscap4620 Russians bragged non stop about their manly army. Cope, seethe, etc. The Russians say "Kiev junta" or "Zelensky regime". Pot calling the kettle black.
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@gordonbennet3753 I mean Russians bragged about MH17, Kramatorsk and the dam and then deleted the posts once they realized that they had messed up. Seems like a pattern. If we have receipts of someone bragging about crimes and then deleting the posts when the community gets angry that's beyond suspicious.
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@fabianpillay860 Russia's loss will lead you to drug addiction.
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@hawaiian529 Putin is one man. Russia has hundred-something million people. They could easily defeat Putin, the mob could tear him apart. There's hundreds of thousands, most likely over a million in the police forces and national guard who could just step aside and let the people give the leader the Gaddafi treatment. They're all to blame.
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The defensive network is worthless without people. Because of the ego of Putin and his military generals, they can't lose territory in the "security zone". It's preferable for Ukraine to fight in the security zone. Winning there means that Russia is forced to throw reserves at the line of contact to avoid the loss of territory. Fight the reserves in the "security zone", by the time you get to the defensive line it will be lacking in manpower. Defenses last 5 minutes if nobody is shooting back.
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@marktsvetanov6038 No need to push when you can starve them out.
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 @exodia9012 They already figured it out.
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@ericp1139 The Russian defensive effort has clearly begun, they throw reserves at the line of contact rather than saving them for the main defensive line. If Russia continues like this they'll have no soldiers to man the defensive line.
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@targetingmolecule5816 Yet quality trunced quantity. Russia is pulling T-55s out of storage. Their tanks are mostly inoperable.
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@targetingmolecule5816 Russia had 15,000 tanks? You mean tank hulls. Actual photos of them show they're rust buckets, exposed to snow and rain for decades.
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