Comments by "jeppen" (@jesan733) on "The point of Russia's meat wave tactics" video.

@hyhhy you frogs said Russia would easily proceed from Bakhmut once that was taken, but Russia did not. You say the same about the counteroffensive now. Btw, Ukraine wasn't trying to keep Bakhmut. They optimized attrition ratio through elastic defense, methodically retreating a street at a time in most cases. And also they kept Russia busy before the counteroffensive. Sadly Russia had enough resources and enough desperation to throw up gigantic minefields while battling for Bakhmut.
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@glintongordon6811 fact remains that pro-Russians talked about Bakhmut being strategically important as the most fortified place and that it would be smooth sailing thereafter, but Russia is pretty much stuck still.
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@hyhhy Russia first failed at maneuver warfare and got ejected from Kiev and Kharkiv. Russia was then outsmarted in the Kupiansk sprint and later dislodged from Kherson and kicked across the Dniepr. Its navy was defeated despite Ukraine having no navy, and they had to retreat in desperation to the furthest reaches of the Black Sea. Russia desperately tried to take Bakhmut and eventually got it as Ukraine just used it as a meat grinder. Russia then desperately mined to the extreme to avoid being overwhelmed by Ukraine's offensive, and also desperately blew up the Khakovka dam in order to free up forces to counter the counteroffensive. And now Russia desperately tries to exploit a short lapse in the resolve of US congress by throwing meat waves of drugged-up expendables at Avdiivka. It's all so incredibly pathetic, but sure, let's say I'm the one coping.
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@black_triton9264 yep, normal inflation. It has come down, the stats are in. Sorry. putinist, but that's just facts.. E.g. in Europe, the average volume-weighted electricity prices have halved in 2023 compared to in 2022.
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@glintongordon6811 the Wagnerites in Africa are mostly not Russians but local mercenaries. I'm not surprised that from Prigozhin's perspective only 50% of his men were injured, because he only counted his paid real mercenaries, not the much larger volumes of cannon fodder prisoners.
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@markbryant4641 Putin thanks you for your propaganda efforts.
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@dr-rexmangrca113 dude, we don't have hyperinflation, not even close. It's 2.4% on an annual basis in November, so almost back to normal.
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@glintongordon6811 why are you on Russia's side?
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@yuriipm3973 "You do understand though, that RU has a single mobilization wave, with ~200K mobilized" They themselves talk more about 600k or something like that, or? "Ukraine is now on its 10th or something" Of perhaps 30k a piece? "the video reports of ppl getting grabbed from the streets, bars, nightclubs are coming in regularly" Those are videos of arrests that the Russian propaganda portrays as mobilization events.
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@markbryant4641 don't worry, I think you likely just adopt Russian narratives much like some people go flat earthist. But Putin is still appreciative.
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@markgonczy8293 according to who? Donbass Doug and Ritter the Diddler?
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@markgonczy8293 everyone can follow, yes, but who reports these numbers? Why do you think Ukraine lost 2k per day throughout the offensive, and how come you think Russia lost just a quarter of the kills that Ukraine reports?
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@glintongordon6811 what did you expect meat wave attacks were, visible walls of zombies marching? Russia is clever enough to use many small groups of infantry trying to infiltrate (and getting spotted and destroyed).
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@GeorgE-yo5yc "Only Ukraine lost more troops defending Bakhmut since their were facing not only more experienced Wagner troops" You're lying, they were facing Wagnerites recruited from prisons usually with no experience. "but a massive disadvantage in artillery - 7 to 1" Russian artillery farts in the general direction of Ukraine. Ukrainian artillery precision strikes targets. "Normally, the attacking side has higher losses against the defending one" And plenty ukrainians and international volunteers estimated an 8:1 advantage in attrition for Ukraine. They just mowed down meat waves of drugged-up wagnerites. "tatistically, every a Ukrainian soldier arriving on the front line in Bakhmut during the most fierce fighting had only 4 hours to live on average." This is an idi-tic figure some random nobody on the ukrainian side uttered and it has become gospel for putinists. However, anyone with a brain understands that it would've been impossible for Ukraine to rotate in fresh troops 6x per day and that would also mean casualties of some 30,000 per day if they had a mere 5,000 troops active in Bakhmut. It's so utterly st-pid I fail to see how people can repeat it now more than 6 months later. "Also, Bakhmut and Avdiivka are one of the most fortified citadels in the world with an elaborate system of trenches and tunnels." This is silly putinist propaganda to rationalize the impotency of Russia in taking the small cities . Also it contradicts what you said before, that more random shelling would mean very much.
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@markbryant4641 don't overinterpret my statements. The Russian propaganda machine does appreciate its "useful idi-ts", but at the same time they throughly disrespect you and feed you ever-more ridiculous ideas to believe. I don't know what you're doing here. You should go to Redacted where you belong.
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