Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Why Ukraine’s Taking Turtle Tanks Seriously" video.

  1. The turtle tank is a low-cost solution. The Russian lead in tank production is pretty unassailable. These are vehicles that are built to win a war of attrition in the new battlefield that has many drones, but fewer tanks. I think people obsess over territorial gains, when the purpose of the Russians is to attrit Ukrainian forces, while steadily building up its own. Maybe all the turtle tank is doing is forcing Ukraine to use more drones, thereby exposing their operators to counter-measures by drones, conventional artillery, and air strikes. If the turtle takes a lot more drones or more expensive drones to combat, that helps the Russians. People make much of these armored columns racing towards Ukrainian positions, but I see them as probing attacks. Ukraine must respond to each of these attacks, which reveals their strength levels and troop and artillery dispositions. Western propaganda makes much of the destruction of these old tanks, but "winning" all these skirmishes comes at a higher cost to the Ukrainians than the Russians. When you stop to think about how expendable these monstrosities are to the Russians, it changes the calculus quite a bit.
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