Comments by "ZootyZoFo" (@ZootyZoFo) on "HistoryLegends" channel.

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  12.  @aeterna8757  - No they haven’t, only according to the Kremlin which is just laughable and as always a complete lie and everyone in the world knows it, they have a 100 year history of telling nothing but lies, they claimed to have knocked out Bradley’s & Leopard II tanks long before they even showed up in Ukraine. I think you are well aware that anything that comes from the Kremlin & Russian MoD is complete bullshit, they claim to have only lost 26,000 in this war and they have lost 20k dead & 80k wounded in the last 5 months alone. Russia has taken many more casualties in Bakhmut because they send meat waves across open fields to take fortified Ukrainian positions without armor support. Think about it, you have to break cover to advance when you are on the offensive, this exposes you to fire so many more are killed compared to defenders who don’t have to break cover & advance. This HL kid has a theory that because Russia fired a lot more artillery Ukraine has lost more people which is ludicrous, properly built bunkers can survive a direct hit from a 152mm shell and Russia uses artillery as a area weapon not a precision weapon, it’s hilarious to think that all your shells are hitting their mark and taking lives, that’s just not the way it works. The most accurate estimates from UK & U.S. intelligence has Ukraine at 15-20k killed and Russia at 47k killed, and three times as many wounded as dead on each side. The claim of Russia killing 300,000 Ukrainians in Bakhmut is just fucking hilarious and nobody in the world believes that.
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  14.  @khorps4756  - No they have not encircled them, nobody gets encircled in this war, both sides pull out before that happens. What they have done is isolate Wagner in one small area of southern flank and managed to kill a lot of Wagner. For Ukraine Bakhmut is not about taking the city it’s about killing as many Russians and destroying as much of their hardware as possible and in this they have been successful, killing many times more than they loss. I know Puttlerites quote the Kremlins ridiculous claimed it 300,000 Ukrainians have been killed but y’all know that’s bullshit, there has it been 300,000 Ukrainians killed in this entire war, Russia is taking far more casualties, they are prison convicts but Russian aggressors non the less. Wagner has been decimated and will likely be completely destroyed, with all the infighting between Wagner & Russian army and all the shit Prigozhan has been talking I believe they are going to leave them there unsupported & without ammo just so they will be destroyed and they don’t have to deal with them anymore. PMC’s are popping up everywhere in Russia these days, oligarchs are preparing for a post-Putin Russia where they will be fighting each other & scrambling for power. Russia is desperate to take Bakhmut for a purely propaganda war, Bakhmut is not a strategic city, Ukraine is just there to kill a shitload of Russians and both sides have been successful but Russia is simply unable to take it and even if they do they will never, ever, take any more cities past it, they will never control the Donbas.
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  50.  @fulconandroadcone9488  - The west did not use trench warfare in WWII, of course there were trenches in WWII, I used trenches and there will always be trenches in every war but there is a huge difference between trenches used in defensive positions and actual trench warfare. This war is trench warfare, static trenchlines with one behind the other and minefields, barbed wire, tank ditches and dragons teeth just like in WWI when the very tactics Russia is using today were developed. The West does not do trench warfare, they do combined arms mobile warfare which the Ukrainians have had some training on but they don’t have two absolutely critical parts needed for combined arms assaults and that is aircraft and air superiority, without that you can’t do combined arms and I doubt if Ukraine will ever be able to do it in this war. It requires a hell of a lot of training & practice to be able to coordinate your air & ground elements together in a symphony of death & destruction and nobody does it better then America because of their massive amounts of firepower. The Shock & Awe you mentioned is only one element of combined arms warfare, shock & awe is part of how you gain air superiority, the other is using highly trained air defense suppression kill teams called wild weasels that knock out the enemies air defense systems. Russia cannot do combined arms warfare for a few reasons but the most glaring is they can’t establish air superiority, they don’t have air defense suppression teams like the west and their pilots don’t have half the training time western pilots do so they have poor pilots despite having some of the best military aircraft in the world. Also the coordination of ground troops, infantry & armor, to work in conjunction with artillery & air is a complicated process that requires extensive training and practice to accomplish and that includes the logistics to support these operations. Russia won’t be able to develop this capability in this war and neither will Ukraine so this war is an example of two peer armies using 90’s era military hardware but it is in no way an example of how the West fights wars in 2023 or their capabilities.
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