Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "Ukr Attack Fails; Milley Calls Zaluznhy, Kirby Bizarre Russia Losses; Sullivan Industry Hollowed Out" video.

He does nothing without being sure Putin approves; that is for sure.
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Deafening Ukrainian fanfaronade about their imminent mighty offensive was quite possibly done with the intention of getting the Russians dedicating all their resources to digging in, thereby obviating any Russian attack. For all their US supplied intel omniscience, Ukraine is going to be tentative and probing, not throw its laboriously accumulated crack brigades at a Kursk style Russian defence so deeply echeloned
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The Ukrainians have more precise targeting and counter battery artillery. The Russian use mass effect in artillery (as all else). So Wagner, which unlike the rest of Russian forces in Ukraine is actually advancing, might well need to fire an awful lot of ammunition. The Russian army is begining to use the assault group methods pioneered by Prigozhin ( also originated the troll farm that maybe tipped the balance preventing Clinton becoming president), so I can't see criticism by Prigozhin backfiring on him because he gets things done. Criticism of the army by Prigozhin is likely articulating what Putin feels, so the Wagner chief is quite possibly Putin's sockpuppet rather than a loose cannon. Anyway the army has traditionally had and been kept having zero influence in the highest political circles as far as I am aware. Progozhin is safe as long as he sticks to criticism of military figures. The evidence so far in Ukraine strongly suggests that combined arms mobile warfare just does not work very well any more. Wagner's methods are a refinement of the Russian army long favoured 'reconnaissance in force' tactic that 'soaks up firepower' by drawing it--with often incredibly bloody results. Progozhin's lifer expendables are tailor made for employing in such a manner. Add a second echelon of agile professionals using stealth and bazookas, and the tactics make excellent sense.
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