Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "'Ukrainians have chosen to fight on' in the besieged city of Mariupol" video.

  1. Vice-Marshal Sean Bell spells it out loud and clear that this war is only growing in importance. His remark how Putin has intervened in the battle of the steel works in Mariupol is interesting. Hitler intervened constantly in the battles his troops were fighting. I remember reading that when the Germans were 30 kilometers from Moscow and could have easily taken the capital city, Hitler stubbornly over-rode his generals and refused to let them go in until they had cleaned up the back country of rebel fighters. As a consequence, it gave the Russians time to re-fortify their city and the Germans were never able to take it. On the other hand, Hitler ordered Paulus who was surrounded in Stalingrad not to surrender. Paulus disobeyed the order and 100,000 German soldiers were captured and marched off to the gulags for the rest of the war. Only 5 thousand troops returned when the war was over. Clearly, Hitler's plan would have not lost all of Paulus' troops. But now; coming back to the war in the Ukraine, what I think needs to be done---and I'm copying what Alexander the Great did in one epic battle against the Persians who outnumbered him---was to drive a wedge between them and come back on their flank with a surprise attack. I'm an artist not a military strategist, but I believe the Ukrainians should drive a wedge though Mariupol and cut the land bridge the Russians are trying to establish in two. It would dash Putin's plan and allow the Ukrainians to mop-up the divided Russian troops. It's an opinion.
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