Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Battle Of SNAKE ISLAND: Explained By A Defense Analyst" video.

@gattonero2915 Please rationalize a mad rush to Kiev, attempts to cut the city off in the West by heading towards the highway, the Hostomel air assault and the vans with riot police with "Russian doctrine". Unless Russia really does live in an alternate universe I don't see how "doctrine" covers the use of troops in riot gear getting killed.
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@gattonero2915 It's not a side objective if the failure of said objective had to change the entire way the operation was conducted. Sure, you don't fail the mission if you fail a side objective. It's still a failure of the side objective. You claim that failing a side objective is just a difference in doctrine. No. It's not doctrine. It's failure. I have no false messiah. I'm here just to watch Russia lose. You have a false messiah. And he will fail. The USA did not "fail" after capturing Baghdad. You have a severe misunderstanding of the history behind the post-2003 events in Iraq. Iraq was defeated. It was done, and the army disbanded. You also repeat the "feint" claim. There are limits on transportation and how much you can squeeze forces into a deployment area. The capital is never left undefended, so the troops would be fixed anyway and wouldn't be brought to the East. It's literal children's logic to think hundreds of thousands of active and reserve units would all congregate to the East like ants.
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@gattonero2915 How does that explain anything about Russian doctrine? The fighting in Iraq was not "Iraq vs Coalition". It was a converging mess of foreign terrorists and Ba'ath party loyalists who decided to fan the flames of sectarian conflict. Most of the deaths in Iraq resulted from terror attacks and Iraqis killing each other. Fake balloon truck? What? The doctrine is that Russia can step on as many rakes as it can in this conflict and can never admit a mistake. It was a feint, bro. Winning at Kiev was just the cherry on top, which is why so many men and equipment were put at risk in such an insane move. You don't throw lives away for a cherry. "Eradicating Azov" = cope. Snake Island was a couple of weeks after Lysychansk. And they were driven away by explosions.
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