Comments by "Dima S" (@dimas3829) on "Defense Politics Asia (DPA)" channel.

@sk-sm9sh Pinning down enemy forces makes sense only if you have another theatre more important or prepare a huge land counter-attack at another place. Neither was true in this case so it was really bad move, strategy-wise. Waiting for more eqipment would make sense if Ukraine wasn't losing it much faster than aquiring new one. Also encirclement gives quite a huge anti motivation boost to moral of the troops that have already seen abandonement of Azov fighters and seing it again is devastating. Mobilisation is cool and sheit, but mobilised man needs training and real reason why would they need to fight for one oligarchic regime against another one. Finally, Russia explicitly stated that it fights for local Ukrainian population and the main goal is to demilitarise Ukraine, it wasn't about making Russia's average Ivan life's better in the first place and that's precisely why Russia didn't enacted mobilisation so it stays Special Operation done by contracted volonteer army, not conscripts.
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a little bit too late, though.
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Ukraine military seem to delegate a lot to the average soldier instead of using offficers to issue commnands. High autonomy is both strenght and weakness of Ukrainian army.
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@sk-sm9sh Well, it depends whether people on both sidesare loyal to the regime they are fighting for and what are their cultural background. Zelensky's background is a clown who made his circus group into proper party on the oligarch's money. Putin is special service veteran made into president by another oligarch.. who mysteriously was found dead when trying to actually control Putin. What regular Ukrainian citizen feel when he gets drafted into war? Fear for his family back at home, distrust to the officer corp that throws him into meat grinder while making some vague orders and slight inspiration of his own coutnry's motto of.. being independant. Urkaine "patriotic" soirit is all about you being on your own and deciding for your own what to do, how is it correlates with forced draft? Not well. Now what a regular Rrussian citizen feel when he VOLONTERED to liberate Ukraine from nazis? He feel agitated cause he chose to participate in it, he feels justified in his fight, he feels that lands that historically belonged to his country can get back to the Motherland, he doesn't feel too concerned about his family cause Ukraine is too afraid to bomb anything beyond border region and then again if Russian volonteer cared about them too much - he wouldn't left them for the conflict in the first place, he also finds it's easying that officers ar there constantly actually giving orders so he doesn't need to constantly think for his own what to do next on the battlefield.
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