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  1.  @economistfromhell4877  Who? Throughout the whole war Ukraine has numbers on their side. From the start.
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  2. It lasted a day.
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  3.  @jonathanm9986  They now have Ukrainian zombies!
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  4. But it killed some Russians as well. The idea is to kill as many Russians and destroy as much Russian equipment. At any Ukrainian cost - which is essentially free.
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  5.  @vanja2565  There is confirmation from both sides of loosing a single Ka-52 in last 48h.
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  6. Ukraine lost the war like 3 months ago. Now Russia is slowly taking them apart while making sure most of the fighting is not done by Russians. Putin went fully Syria on them.
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  7.  mike carson  There are videos of POWs complaining, there are no videos of free Russian soldiers in units complaining. At least I never seen a single video. You watch too much western propaganda. Imagine if this BS "here are horror stories of Russian commanders pointing guns at their troops telling them to get to the front line and fight or get shot. one instance a whole Russian troop brigade turn their guns on a general and his special forces threatening them. " Was true. We would not see small Russian armed force beat living shit out of Ukrainians. Where do you have "ere are horror stories of Russian commanders pointing guns at their troops" as an example - where? Any evidence other then "CNN says so"? Just think logically for a second. Would you in that situation go and be super effective soldier? Would you? I do not think so. Do you think Russians are special?
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  8.  mike carson  LOL, imagine you are right, that indeed Russians do not want to fight, that Russians are killed en masse etc. etc. etc. Lets all assume this to be true! But then you have to also add to this that Zielinski claimed that Ukraine has 700k - clearly if you believe in above BS, you also assume rest is true as well. Then the same guys tell you how many troops Russia has - which is around 100 BTG. Then you also have to believe each has 800 to 1000 soldiers. And then it means, using basic math that Russia only has at most 80k in Ukraine. Then you add Russian allies and you get what? 120k? 140k? max. Then you have inconvenient fact that Ukrainians are on defense all over Donbass, cannot attack or are unwilling to & are clearly loosing ground. So facts: -- UA forces 700k -- Russia and allies max 140k -- Russians are gaining ground -- Ukrainians are retreating from heavily fortified positons -- (now yours) Russians are unwilling to attack -- (yours) 50 Americans killed 200 Russians or similar losses - i.e. Russia is taking many times more then Ukraine Now it does not take a genius to figure out that not all these facts can be true at the same time ;) See I am not kidding you. I am just leading you to conclude for yourself that this simply cannot be true.
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  9. Also it is known that pickup trucks were very successful against M1A1 in Iraqi service. Thus clearly the problem was not the tank. The older Leopard 2s given to Ukraine are in every way inferior to latest Russian tanks - not that it matters so much in this war.
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  10. @Vat Nik Well, if you are a tank nerd then you need to study both t-72 and t-90. Soviet tanks had ability to fire on the move for a long time and it got progressively better. In upgraded t-72 you have modern fire control and decent 2nd gen thermals. In t90m you have full hunter killer ability i.e. Both gunner and commander, 3rd gen, and a good ballistic computer. Thus, t90m has better sensors than latest M1. Overall t90m is tire 1 tank, it is one of the best in the world, same class as latest Abrams or leopard 2 a7. It is better by a wide margin than say British Challenger. For a nerd you need to read more, I suggest tankgrod.
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  11. @Ryan Yep, Ukraine is done for - has been a while back - sure they can fight to last Ukrainian - so what, will not help them.
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  12. @Ryan Ukraine is not just loosing, they are badly loosing. So what they have taken some land - they have suffered huge losses and now are on the defensive. So what Russians have not captured Bakhmut - Ukraine needs a new brigade there every 4 days or less. May I remind you that after initial gains and initial pushbacks Germany in WWI also were stuck - till they finally collapsed - similar situation here. Writing is on the wall. Ukraine needs a miracle to even tie now.
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  13. @Ryan Well, you can count this as a war similar to WWI - trench welfare. So in WWI they fired 1 million shells per day (all sides) - which makes all the Russian logistics issues a joke BTW. They need around 200 shells to kill a person. In this war as in WWI most killing is done by artillery accounting for around 80%. Since artillery improved a lot from WWI days the number of shells per kill at 75 - 100 is reasonable. Also given drone corrections etc. Heck, even less than 75 is possible. We know Russia is firing at least 6x as many shells as Ukraine. We know Russian losses almost to a single man and we are quite well versed in allied losses. So we can start computing lower and upper bound on UA losses. See, 100% facts based approach. In Bakhmut Russia is firing around 10x as many artillery shells. Thus UA losses there despite defense are easily at 6x Russian losses. I will not even mention the fact that Russia has better trained and far better equipped (in armor) troops. That certainly helps.
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  14. @Ryan Why would Ukraine fall given their 100k or around that killed so far and at least 500k wounded / others? Their total reserves are over 2 million at the moment. Also many of the 500k wounded were wounded multiple times, some three times (the actual number is probably much higher). Ukraine still can go on like this for few more years. The cut off is around 10% of the population - which they are still far from reaching.
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  15. @Ryan I am usually a pessimist, but I wish you all the best.
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  16. They are sending 4.
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  17. ​ @Evirthewarrior what insurgency? By whom? Do you see any insurgency now? New buildings are built in Mariupol and 1000s of apartments are sold like hot cookies. Apartments costs more than in Kiev.
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  18. I doubt they have more than 2 to 3 weeks before Russians are way too strong. Then in winter spring we see Russians pushing them out.
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  19. Yes, at most 2000. Others also estimated 2000. As for "mutiny" it is very .... strange. The aircraft losses are only "losses"... It is all a ... mystery.
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  20.  @johnmartin7158  Yes, but if we use WWI as analogy and do some computations we see that Ukraine is getting its teeth knocked in.
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  21. Russia found cope cages... Everywhere.
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  22.  @husseinbonaud1883  Problem is that by fixing these 30 BTGs they totally uncovered Donbass front.
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  23. Florida!
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  24. If they concentrated more on the south, so would Russia. This was last hope attack. Steiner style. Their hope was Russians will run away. Despite fighting them for years. Americans should be prevented from interfering, they only know how to loose wars.
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  25. Yeah Russians strike back. Russians are trading some small villages in Zaporozia for Kupiansk. Good trade.
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  26. Too expensive for such a large army. It feels Russia will mostly hold current territory and is preparing for an end of this war. No NATO and some land. Not bad.
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  27. Imagine forest near Lyman - where the Ukrainian troops blown up the only remaining bridge and their own men need to swim to get on the other side... where they are arrested for desertion (!!!!) How is that for low morale? Block troops!
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  28. Remember that Wagner boss cannot give up any classified info. I.e. He cannot tell true numbers of his own side nor he can tell true estimate of the enemy. Just use him for entertainment.
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  29.  @iwams1  Well, Russians are now crossing the Bahmut defense line. Once that is done they only have Slaviansk and Krematorsk. Also there is increasing talks of what to do after and what Russia will do etc. etc. Essentially they are talking now of buffer zones etc. We can clearly see Ukraine is collapsing and Russians are now just sweeping left overs. Once special operation is over everyone waits for what will be next. That is now new speculation area - what will be NEXT.
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  30.  @vlasenica18  Who cares what Ukrainian (Kiev regime) guys say? Their opinions are irrelevant. We may be in a junction where as Moscow decides to remove Kiev regime. And their opinions will count as much as Baghdad Bob.
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  31.  @FlyingAlfredoSaucer  Nah, its moving nicely now. Russians are crossing Bahmut defense line. Its only few km away from Slaviansk line. It is hard to imagine them taking more then a month to do that - its like 1km per day or maybe less. Just look at the time they needed to do Severdoneck to current positions - its about the same distance. And it was what - less then a month, around a month?
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  32.  @FlyingAlfredoSaucer  Sure, once operation is complete and Ukraine wants to fight we see what happens. I think Putin will have cause for full scale war. But maybe not. We see. Whatever he does we can all be sure Ukraine will pay dearly for it.
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  33.  @shawnshazam1912  Russia will only use nukes to defend themselves. Relax, Putin currently is the best world leader. Best do not easily do stupid things. Putin sphere of influence is increasing. I do not think there will be any collapse, at least of Russian influence. Currently we are seeing US collapse, on the other hand.
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  34.  @vlasenica18  Umm, so what Kiev has 3m citizens or did before the war. You look at size of agglomeration and defensive forces that could be deployed. Thus 100k to 150k would be enough to capture the city and surrounding areas. Note That previous lightning attempt by Russia used about 15k initially. Then they sent another 15k from the other side. Combined force of at most 30k made little progress and was stopped, yet they still reached outskirts. We are talking of a force 3x++ larger.
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  35.  @vlasenica18  No one believes in good will. There is none at war.
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  36.  @vlasenica18  If Kiev was captured the plan would be to take all of Ukraine - which would fall rather quickly after fall of Kiev. So no more weapon deliveries from NATO.
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  37. So what?
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  38. Russia's land army is not that big - well under 300k and at least 100k of that is conscripts. Thus they can deploy into Ukraine maybe max 140k or 150k. Today they have deployed around 40k - max 50k.
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  39. I said after week 1 failure they should stop. I also said they get like 10 villages and that will be spinned into a victory. Ukraine lost the war. Deal with it.
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  40. Well, relax, next batch has FOUR MLRS systems. 4. It even has some ammo as well ;)
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  41. Slovenian T-55 S1 upgrade is a joke as it was done 25 years ago (!) This may have been somewhat decent tank in late 1990s but today it has LOTS of issues even for use as an assault gun. For comparison, T-62 Russia has brought up has such innovations as ... 2nd gen thermals! It has also better armor package and better gun. Sure, the S1 could be better with 2nd gen thermals as well, but we are going deep into "good enough" territory. The S1 is better than nothing and certainly better than stock T-55 or even stock T-62 but getting few of them will not make much of a difference - I mean Russia is sending 100s of T-80s and T-90s into combat... Ukraine gets few dozen upgraded T-55s ;)
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  42. Ukraine is taking massive loses. I said 4x at the beginning but I think now it's closer to 6x or so. It's total destruction of Ukriane's army. Russia counter will wipe them out.
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  43.  @pauljames5079  Why wouldn't they? Russia probably has winter military clothing for around 10m people. Give or take a million.
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  44. Poles are cheering for Ukraine, but say situation is hopeless.
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  45. France is too weak to take on Russia. It could also lead to France loosing its NATO protection. Note that Russia produces 100++ more ammo than France 😂😂 Any force sent, say 20k, would be enough for Russia to do another mobilization of 300k. On the other hand it would show France as total paper tiger and a joke.
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  46. Just take their claim of how many Russians they killed and assume these are their losses. Easy. This means they are out at least 100,000 casualties. For a fully mobilized country they seem to have a lot of middle aged men.
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  47. If equal units of say 10k of Russia and US stood tomorrow to fight I have $100 on Russia kicking US very hard. It would not even be close.
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  48. There is talk of Wagner taking Ivaniske next and then onto chasiv yar. Kromove is about to be taken. Flanks hold. Ukraine attack failed to do much more than take outposts out.
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  49. They are trapped as they have no way out. The whole sailent is held b/c Zielinski and his Nazi handlers say "no step back". This was used in the last days of Nazi Germany. It sure did cost allies some problems but also created giant opportunities to eliminate whole units quickly. So what they are dug in at lisichiansk - the Azov steel works was a fortress build over 8 years. So what. Eventually they run out of supplies :) Same here, by putting even more pp there they ensure even quicker fall.
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  50. This video was made long time ago - 2 out of roads shown are not viable. 5:53 road is not viable as Ukrainians blew up a bridge. So no use there. The northern road was cut as well after taking Paraskovivka (with photo confirmation and flag). So only 1 road is free.
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