Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Kherson Offensive: What Went Wrong?" video.

The wall of silence is opening up. It now turns out that the RA has lost the high ground so vigorously fought for in the last months -- at the northern tip of the Kherson pocket. This position was held by at least One BTG reinforced by militia. The UA flag raising is now all over the news -- globally. Further to the east -- along the northern most edge of the pocket -- the RA has been driven back at least 5 km -- with social media claiming even more. The UA has punished the RA artillery defense for that front, in the last few days, with counter-battery fires. These have been so intense that they can be seen glowing from space. Down south, the RA was able to effectively counter-attack everything the UA threw at them -- for now. In the center, the RA has lost a fair amount of critical ground, with bitter fighting by both nations every step of the way. For a time, it looked like the RA was victorious with its riposte. But, sadly, the UA flipped the battle by crossing the critical river in M-113s, thence to expand their crossing, driving the RA back -- a lot. The river is so shallow there, that the UA is using this latest crossing as if it were a ford. It's a tad deep for that, so the UA is filling the zone with gravel. Now, there's nothing for the RA to hit with artillery... river wise. At the end of the day, we're seeing Operation Uranus, repeated. Eighty-years ago the Reds bagged an entire army. (Really an army group of 22 divisions.) For the first month, the Krauts were in denial. The 57th Panzer Corps was to rescue them. Oops. It couldn't. Finally, after ten-weeks, the German 6th Army threw in the white flag. The total destruction of the RA's land communications ( all of the bridges ) is as devastating as full-on encirclement. NOTHING is getting through in the volumes required. [ Putin's helicopter attempts are going down like Ju-52s over the Stalingrad pocket.] ( Today's soldiers burn through ten-times as much stuff as those eighty-years ago -- per capita.) Putin's doomed 20,000 boys (a corps) are going through enough material to sustain an army of WWII. (~ 150,000-225,000 troops, typically) Putin's war industry is utterly crippled by sanctions. This is comparable to the USAAF and RAF bombing Nazi Germany -- and how then Adolf just couldn't execute his weapons programs on tempo. Putin has lost about twenty-percent of his rolling stock (railroad cars) to maintenance blues. Import substitution is not working. So his national railroad is now pitching the idea that laid off employees need to sign contracts for war service. (!) Boy, that's a sign of victory -- NOT ! Brian, at least YOU won't be tearing your hair out. Kadyrov is calling it quits. I don't think Putin his happy with him. The Chechens now want to rebel.
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@19GerMan88 Red China is not a status quo power. It's imperialist to the core. Ask around. Right now Beijing is doing its part to re-colonize Africa -- via debt diplomacy. Corruption 'sells.' India -- in a world where Red China feels free -- will be in a world of hurt. Russia will have lost its empire -- Siberia -- for sure -- to Red China. War games doping this transfer out have already been undertaken. Putin was NOT happy. Latin America is not going anywhere. It still lives free and easy under the echo of the Monroe Doctrine. Moscow had been Havana's sponsor. Now they are both broke. Nicaragua is in the same camp -- just not as broke -- but trying to get there. Beijing does seem to have a grip on Venezuela. The idiots in Caracas seem to think that they are immune to debt diplomacy. In any event, Beijing is your go-to source for goon training and goon equipment. So, they have that in common.
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They actually HAVE advanced quite a lot. They've been reluctant to let the news out. Even though the RA is in the bag -- been pocketed -- it still has a LOT of ammo on hand, a LOT of artillery on hand. Eighty-years ago, the Krauts had lots of ammo, guns -- the works. So, for the first weeks, they put up a stout defense from inside the Stalingrad pocket. But it was idiot obvious that Germany could not send material aid. An 'air bridge' could not be established. After ten-weeks, the Krauts threw in the towel... a very frozen towel. The RA won't run out of food. There's no chance of that. They'll just steal from the locals. The RA is guaranteed to run out of ammo, bandages... and morale. Like the Luftwaffe -- the Russian Air Force is going to take a beating. Flying a helicopter into the Kherson pocket is near suicide. All air strips have been ruined. In WWII, the typical Kraut in the Stalingrad pocket would've been better off just surrendering from the first. Instead, they just HAD to hang on... until they were dead. 90,000 surrendered in February -- but 45,000 were dead the next day. Why? They couldn't even walk into captivity. They were THAT weak.
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@valeremkin5188 Partisans have begun shoot-outs with the RA in the heart of Kherson. ( the train station ) The Kherson oblast pocket will collapse by November. In the meantime, the UA is just picking the RA apart: drones & artillery. The RA can't respond. The UA is out of range; the drones are impossible to stop. Amazingly, T-62 antiques have been pressed into front line duty. (!!!) Yes, in the Kherson pocket.
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@valeremkin5188 Val, put down the bong. Putin can't even get Modi and Xi to back his play. Though Xi is clearly selling/ gifting munitions to Putin. They've shown up in Ukraine -- Mandarin labels still in evidence. That Russia, a world-class ammo manufacturer, has to buy stuff from neighbors -- is astonishing. Putin has already tapped Belarus, North Korea and now Red China. Putin is now down to placing T-62s and towed artillery into the front line. Six months ago, no Russian formation lacked self-propelled artillery. ( Exception: paratroops.) Putin can't replace his equipment loses -- nor his manpower loses. Put a fork in him, he's done.
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