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Ryuu96 said:
It's pretty easy to be quick to dismiss the Ukrainian offensive operation in Russia's Kursk as "just a PR stunt" and criticize it, given the dire situation at Porkovsk and Toretsk. That, indeed, might be a bad idea. At the same time, it's very hard to ignore the fact that... - given Russia's strategic superiority in resources and manpower and given Russia's readiness to tolerate inadequate losses, putting their flags over lifeless ruins of Ukrainian towns at any cost, - given Ukraine's own chronic problems and constraints in its ability to fight a full-scale total war in the 21st-century environment against one of the world's largest militaries, - given how chronically slow Western defense aid is and how reluctant the West is in making decisions and dropping its "escalation management" limitations, ...Ukraine may need to focus even more on asymmetrical tactics and out-of-the-box solutions that hit Russia hard where it doesn't expect. Just fighting through walls of endless Russian frontal attacks slowly closing in under the rain of gliding bombs for months and years is a bleak perspective. Especially in a situation where the aggressor spends over two years enjoying perfectly safe havens in its territory to concentrate its forces, unfold its logistics, etc., for bombing campaigns and new offensive operations -- because heaven forbid Ukraine strikes back too hard. We'll see. And no, "just surrender then" is not an option. |
I just hope that they don't push too far and get too eager, because the counterattack could be very bad. Still if they are here to stay in the game then so be it, just please do it wisely, Ukraine. Hope they don't repeat the costly losses that the offensives last year had. The point that you had about the assymetrical tactics was prescient, because Russia is all about doing everything by the book. They can't break free of that and do something unexpected to save their lives.
