Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "Weeb Union" channel.

  1. The whole Robotyne thing is on the level of "Sir! The enemy managed to conquer the ditch in front of our castle walls!"
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  2. To make it clear: To break through a layered defense system, your main target is the last line, where the majority of fire power stands and the majority of logicists will take place. The least target is your first line, which is on the level of a ditch or obstacles on the terrain before that: there to slow down the enemy, so he can't just rush to the next lines and be easier to target. If you already struggle to reach this first line, you should just give up, because that's the most easy part by far.
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  3. That's clearly no Hamas rocket...
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  4. Do people think that the 'control' of some ruins give you a respawn point or factory placement to spawn new units in or some bonus like in a videogame? Because that's how this sounds like.
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  5. 100 TOS? Hell on earth....
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  6. Wonder if peopel will ever learn that warfare isn't about gaining ground.
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  7. "Sir, we managed to get in front of the first castle wall!" "Victory must be close!"
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  8. The numbers alone make no sense. By Orxy, Ukraine all together lost almost less than they captured. Means: while Russia's army got shred apart like being nuked, Ukraine's army didn't get any smaller, whenever they lose something, they just replace it by stealing it rom the Russians. So with that and the thousands of military units they got from NATO, Ukraine got a gigantic tank army running now, the biggest army in Europe by far, while Russia lost everything it got. And now we look at reality...
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  9. This idea to just cut into that landbridge is only insane suicide. This over 100km wide 'line' isn't some rubberband that will just snap back and be gone, when you cut in. It simply means, that they are in a 100km deep cauldron, what is a nightmare.
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  10. A look on the map alone shows, that this is jus an open field. You don't hold something like that. People still think, that those colored areas on the map are some how hold territory and the border is a heavily defensed line and when someone is able to "break" that line, that is s great success. In reality, there is near to no or just no one at those lines and even behind it, so just going there isn't the problem. The problem is, that you get right into the sheer kill zone of all the weapon system far behind those lines when you get into that area.
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  11. Kharkiv? Russia just shortened its frontline there and caused massive damage to the Banderas army. The idea that this is about random area control is the first mistake you can make. Russia did not care to hold that area, because that would have increase the already very long frontline even more, something you ALWAYS want to avoid when possible.
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  12. Only reason for Russia to take that area is the Banderites retreating. Else this pocket is wonderful to have and an awful position for the Banderites to be in.
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  13. In the day of drones, high range artillery and aviation warfare, heights don''t really play much of a role anymore.
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  14. Alway funny with those maps, because overall people seem to have the idea, that all the colored areas are somehow filled with soldiers and weapons and that the borders are some kind of walls or whatever.
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  15. It's said they still have around 150k soldiers left, plus what they further cut out of their population to sent in is cannonfodder. Yes, there is still quite some left.
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  16.  @gp8231  They didn't even threaten the first defenseline, which is just an obstacle. For a breakthrough they would have to get through ALL defenselines.
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  17. To break through a layered defense you have to break through the last line. Breaking through the first line means nothign, because the first line is only there to slow you down, it's not the actual main defense, but a cover for it.
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  18.  @andrewkrolikiewicz6522  Modern warfare is a nightmare for humans. You get blown up by something from behind the Horizon and even in fire fights on rifle range, you often just blindly shoot in some direction. Modern weaponry makes it more luck than anything else if you survive, since even a solid wall won't protect you. Of course NATO is used to fight peopel who barely got more than a rifle and mortar here and there. A very different scenario. Still not without danger, but absolutely not compareable. This war (like pretty much all wars...) should never even have started 2014. The illegal coup was one thing, but to not only accept but push that coup regime to mass murder to start a proxy war against Russia, was simply as insane as disgusting.
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  19. Everything in front of the defense lines is there to let the enemy come in. If you want to haved ANY success, you would have to breach not only the first, but ALL frontlines, especially those with the high range weapon systems, which are the main killer. Even the very first line of defense is mainly a blocker.
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  20.  @MusketeerYanick  When you get hit by artillery, you are toast, doesn't matter. I'm less certain if that was a Russian column in the first place.
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  21. Look up 2.WW and the insanity of the Nazis regarding their Endsieg. Same thing.
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  22.  @deelag5444  That small force was never there to take Kiev, though. You can't take a city even more capital of that size with a few thousand soldiers and mid level equipment at best.
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  23. The first line of a layered defense is nothing you want to conquer in the first place (as the attacker), since it is pretty much the main target marker for the heavily armed defense lines behind those.
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  24.  @malcolmt7883  Nonsense. The core problem for Russia is, that it seens Ukraine as a brother. The Russians even forgave the original Nazis and didn't see all germany as fascists. Ukraine is even worse, it's like the brothers familiy being held hostage by an insane uncle or whatever. They never wanted that war in the first place and for sure don't want to destroy Ukraine. People don't get, how easily Russia could do that. They don't want to.
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  25. The problem is, that people got wrong expectations. Russia's goal is to a) free the Donbass, b) destoy the military power of the coup regime Ukraine and C) get rid of the Nazis (at least in their position of power). While you can argue, that a is about territory, it is something you gonna reach anyway when you take care of b and c. There is simply no reason for any big push. At start it was necessary to secure as much as possible, but as soon as the build up defense lines were met, this couldn't go on like that (and of course there had always been the hope, that the Nazis today are a bit smarter than the Nazis 194x - well, they aren't). Why take an increase risk, when the enemy is so nice to create a shooting range for you? To not take that gift would just help the enemy and increase your own losses. Russia IS in the offensive. Constantly. The offensive to reach goal B and C. That they don't move much for this doesn't matter. We aren't in medieval times, where you have to send your spearmen and knights in to fight the enemy mano a mano.
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  26. When and how should Bakhmut have started costly for Russia?
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  27.  @stephenoneill245  You don't just shoot at every single unit that come into range. Russia is know for letting the enemy come and feel save in their positions, then deliver devastating strikes at the right moment. You peopel think this is a videogame with some small map. Ukraine is a very big country and even those 20% that Russia secured is bigger than many countries on this planet.
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  28.  @jdb47games  There was nonne in Kiev. When it was clear that the Nazi regime is insane as NATO, there was of course a chance in strategy. There was no need to waste your troops over holding up a pinning operation which had done its job. Kharkiv was pointless territory to hold. That was obvious, because Russia gave a damn about even trying to build up any defensive line there. Giving up Kherson city was annoying, but with the Nazis and NATO going for destroying the dam to flood the city, there was no other choice than evacuating the civilians and after that there was no point to hold a disadvantaged position with such a massive river in your back, so they went a little south and made that disadvantage to an advantage. You don't get how war works. It's not about territory. That's what you take as you please when the enemy got no army left. Ukraine go no army left since a year meanwhile. Without NATO raping the country with detonating debt by pumping billion after billion into it, which it will never be able to pay back without completely selling out to our western fascists and with the Nazis just throwing the lives of a whole generation of men away, this would be over middle last year. And this would have been FAR better for western Ukraine. At this point, I'm not sure if there will be anything left. Not because Russian missiles, but what NATO and Nazis did to it.
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  29. Was that a Russian attack? I can't even see the goal in that.
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  30. Layered defense works roughyl like that: You got the first line which mainly acts like a castlewall, an obstacle to slow down/stop the movement of the offensive. You got the second line which is more armed and got as main job to attack those who try to get over the first line and replenish the first line (for example with mines). And you got the third line with all the longe range weaponry. On top of that come of course drones, air force and additional long rance missile systems. To break such defense you have to pretty much crush through the first line, overwhelm the second line and then get in direct fight with the third line to pin them down, defeat or at least dispers them, then use all this to harden your own stand by creating a bridgehead ( a real one, not just "you are there", but "you dominate that area and control the pathes to it"). From that position on you could act further. If you just fool around at or even worse in front of the first line, you are pretty much doing nothing. What you got in front of the first line are few scout troops, light equipped, fast troops who are there to, well, scout and mess with the enemy when possiblek but also instantly fall back when things get rougher. Such strategies aren't new at all, but thousands of years old and while the arms have changed, this just made it worse, because now those lines can be many km apart from each other, while the power of the last line is even deadlier than ever. It's also way harder to make break throughs via stealth, because you overall need heavy equipment these days to break lines, which is of course not very stealthy and modern surveillance and communication makes it easy for the lines to not be surprised by and kind of advances or surprise attacks. An alternative is of course when you can just bombe these lines, but against an enemy with heavy air defense that can also quickly become a suicide mission. Still an air force can of course at least ignore the gruond part of the defense lines and only has to fear the air defense, while directly going for the third line. The best solution is of course to combine both - if you can, but for that all this must really work together and the ground forces have to use the time the air force keep the lines under pressure to ease the break through. Ukraine is clearly lacking in every area of this. They overall simply don't even have the tools to start with nor can NATO deliver them. NATO would have to go all in itself to have a chance.
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  31. The focus on area is the stupid part. The focus must be on destroyed military equipment or lost soldiers. That's what warfare is about.
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  32. War isn't about area gains.
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  33. For a break through you have to get your army past it - not some units.
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  34. You only take/hold territory during the war if it got tactical or strategical meaning.
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  35. When you are that strong, the way to go is to intantly push through the first defenselines and go against the main attack force in the last line. That's what you have to do. When you fool around in front of the first line, that's the absolute worst you can do.
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  36. There aren't even small gaines. Taking territory is worth nothing in warfare. Territory you take as you please AFTER the war, when you destroyed the enemies army. Sacrifing your army to take control over empty fields and ruined villages is the absolut opposite of a "gain".
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  37.  @MrRugbylane  What do you think the Russia did the last months? If not clear, ask yourself, why Elensky is crying for another whole new army.
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  38. They clearly attack at many positions at once, while the side fronts still stay the side fronts. Just rushing in is never a good idea and very risky and dangerous. Far better to take your time and lure the enemy into the position you want him in. Doesn't make a difference where you destroy the enemy, the only difference is, how much risk do you put your own army in. Going in is a higher riks than letting them come, pretty much always.
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  39. Easy to see why they can go there, because they used the beach area. You won't have tunnel network there and the area is easy to control. Against a real army you would be wild in the open and be toast, but Hamas doesn't have a real army. They are militias.
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  40.  @CommonSenz  This starts with the absurd idea, that Russia is holding that city in the first place and could be encircled there. You may have some forces there, just as those forces at the frontline, but the majority is far behind that frontline. You can't encircle the Russian army in Bakhmut, becaue they are simply not there in the way you think.
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  41. Most people are used to "war" in video game and movies, what is hardecore war propaganda, often enough selling war as even heroic and of course ease. You only fail, when you are stupid, when you are smart you got a plan for everything and your enemy is of course alsways a complete idiot. A reason why I especially dislike all that badly written fiction where some plot armor guys wins the day against a completely idiotic antagonist, because it raises so many people with that absurd idea in their head, that this is normal. That's how things go. Many don't seem to be able to have this realisation, that this is jut badly written fiction and would never work in RL. Instead you can tell them the exact same story in the news and they eat it.
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  42.  @jesan733  No, Russia had a pinning operation near Kiev with a few thousand soldiers, so it could easily march through in East and South Ukraine. Utterly different.
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  43.  @2funny269  It's not videogame, kid.
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  44. When I see such supposed Russian pushes, I always wonder if that's what really happened, because what exactly what the point there in general? Why should they do that in the first place?
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  45.  @ConkerVonZap  Thing is, that doesn't change a thing, because in contrary to Ukraine, Russian doesn't need to move their forces around anymore with the build up. Sure, the Nazis can take away from Bakhmut, but that just worsens their posiotion there even further. When the intervention started in February, that push toward Kiev was something alike. It made the regime there focus on Kiev - making it much easier for Russia to push through agreat part of the Donbass up to the fortiefied lines. Of course the Kiev maneveure was extremly dangerous and risky for the troops there, that's why the let them retreat quickyly after, since a few thousand troops can't hold a position like that, would be a waste of lives and equipment. What we got now is a far less risky version of it.
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  46.  @kevinstevens5309  That's not how physic works, video game warrior.
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  47.  @Василий-щ9б2п  They lost thousand vehicles, what isn't just their own, but NATO pumped them full of stuff, too. They got thousands of armored vehicles including tanks from NATO alone, all the soviet stuff the eastern european countries still had (says by the way a lot, that Russia let them keep it). On top of that: when you record one destroyed tank 10 times, than you only need 100 destroyed tanks to sell them as 1000.
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  48.  @hia5235  That's 44, so middle aged.
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  49. They ARE on offensive - all the time - offensive doesn't mean, that you have to move frontlines. It simply means that you attack the enemy and they do that all the time. It's simply much less risky to grind down an enemy from strong defensive lines and if you can continue doing that without moving, just the better.
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  50.  @deelag5444  Russia does not WANT Kiev.
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