Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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S.Peelman said:

It's funny how Russia apparently hasn't realised yet what the rest of the world realised back in World War I; 18th and 19th century charge tactics don't work well against machine guns.

And it sure didn't get better with the introduction of assault rifles, I imagine, because now almost every soldier has what is somewhat comparable to a machine gun. But what can you do if expending manpower is the only thing that you know that kind of works? Surely one does not simply consider it a lost cause, almost literally throwing away those lives is much better.