Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Quote:Why the arbitrary cutoff at 50 years ago? Signym, do you look back to 1944 and not see Russia invading the West? Russia stopped moving Westward across Europe only because the Red Army came up against the U.S. Army. Only a few American warriors died killing millions of Germans while, in the same time period, tens of millions of Russians died because Russians were grossly incompetent warriors against the Germans. There was also that little thing called the A-bomb to back the U.S. Army if the Red Army decided to keep moving West in 1945 against a far more competent Army than Russia had.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It astonishes me, SECOND, how you can be so consistently wrong on every particular.
With the exception of Crimea, Russia has not moved to the west in over 50 years. In fact, it retreated in the other direction.
NATO, OTOH, aggressively moved eastward.
What I sense is a great deal of projection. You're afraid Russia is going to act like we do.
Signym, the Russian Army is on the move again, toward the West and Russians are semi-confident that the U.S. Army won't be there to stop them this time. The Russians will get very-very confident if they take over Ukraine their Army can keep moving West. With President Trump back in office, it is guaranteed the U.S. Army won't be there to stop Russia. There are Baltic states and Moldavia for Russia to take after Ukraine. Maybe Russia will try to take Finland.
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Second and Ted really need to get a life.
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SECOND should get some kind of prize for having an iron grip on delusion.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:It is clear that Ukraine is NOT the western limit to Russia's ambitions:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND should get some kind of prize for having an iron grip on delusion.
Putin's "bloodhound" Kadyrov: East Germany is "our territory"
The Chechen ruler proposes sending the Russian army back to eastern Germany. He threatened Chancellor Olaf Scholz with a beating.
Kadyrov said he was confident that Russia could achieve its goals in Ukraine by the end of the year. "I believe that by the end of the year we will be 100 percent able to fulfill the task set for us today."
Last October he was promoted to colonel general by Vladimir Putin. Colonel-General is the third highest rank in the Russian Armed Forces, behind Marshal and Army General.
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Sad.
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Quote:Indeed, the Russians are sad because the average Russian has less than 25% of the material possessions of a Canadian, but that is what happens to a country that is eternally opposed to everything the US does. The US/Canadian border is the longest in the world and, for some reason, Canadians don't fear that the US will invade. Russians are paranoid about the US and NATO firing missiles at Moscow. Canada is not worried that the US will nuke Ottawa, but that is probably because Canadians are mentally stable, and steady as a rock, unlike Russians and Trumptards.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sad.
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“It will be almost impossible for the Russians to achieve their political objectives by military means. It is unlikely that Russia is going to overrun Ukraine. It’s just not going to happen,” General Mark Milley said.
“It is also very, very difficult for Ukraine this year to kick the Russians out of every inch of Russian-occupied Ukraine,” he added. “It’s not to say that it can’t happen . . . But it’s extraordinarily difficult. And it would require essentially the collapse of the Russian military.”
When asked if the moment for diplomacy between Moscow and Kyiv had passed, Milley said: “We’re weeks away from the beginning of spring, but it’s a rolling window. There’s opportunities at any moment in time.”
However, he said, both sides were “dug in pretty hard on their objectives” and unwilling to negotiate.
Milley said the conflict echoed a lesson from the second world war that aggression must be stopped “with firmness, deterrence, military power”, though he noted that with Russia’s nuclear arsenal the stakes were now higher.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Indeed, the Russians are sad
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sad.
Maybe, but I'm not witness to it.
You, on the other hand, are very, very sad.
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Quote:I know for a fact that Signym has forgotten all the actual history of Russia, replacing the ugly rusted truth with Putin's shiny gold-plated plastic version of a glorious past. The truth is that Russians have run their country very poorly for centuries, which is why they are poor. The Russians have tried to compensate by stealing other people's richer lands. Ukraine has particularly rich cropland. That didn't work well because the newly stolen land was administered by Russians. They were very inadequate for that task in the past, present, and, probably, will be in the future, the next 10 years or more.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Indeed, the Russians are sad
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sad.
Maybe, but I'm not witness to it.
You, on the other hand, are very, very sad.
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Military History Doesn’t Say What Ukraine’s Critics Think
Eliot A. Cohen
It is in the differences from past wars that insight into today’s battles lies.
Updated at 11:21 a.m. ET on February 15, 2023.
Commentators on the Ukraine war who think that American support for Ukraine is pointless or dangerous commonly reach for references to military history. They not only often get it wrong, but they frequently get it backwards, construing that history into a case for Russia’s likely success.
Christopher Caldwell, for example, writes that American aid is intended to “fast-forward history, from World War I’s battles of position to World War II’s battles of movement,” and that this enterprise is doomed to fail. In his view, both Russia and Ukraine will continue to fight a war characterized by hordes of mud-covered soldiers huddling in freezing trenches before perishing in their thousands in a hail of fire as they go over the top, and some shipments of Western battle tanks to Ukraine will not stop that. Thus, and perversely, not bringing this futile war to an end by twisting Ukraine’s arm is America’s fault.
What is wrong with the analogy? To begin with, the fact that Russian and Ukrainian soldiers huddle in dugouts and have to worry about hypothermia (the Russians more than the better-equipped Ukrainians) is something they share in common with soldiers in many wars. Trench warfare was not an innovation of the Great War, as a walk through the Civil War battlefields of Cold Harbor and Petersburg would show. The advent of long-range rifles in the mid-19th century quickly taught soldiers the imperative of digging in as soon as possible. They have done so ever since.
Where references to World War I like Caldwell’s really break down, however, is in the fact that combat during World War I was not, in its concluding phase, characterized by the human-wave assaults familiar to us from movies about the war. The German offensives that nearly broke the Allies in the spring of 1918 relied on deep, accurate artillery fire followed by storm troops using infiltration attacks to achieve breakthroughs of up to 40 miles. That summer and fall, Allied offensives smashed German defenses, forcing that country to sue for peace. These were methodical combined-arms assaults in which the infantry was backed by tanks and aircraft in carefully coordinated attacks to seize terrain piece by piece. They succeeded even more definitively than had the Germans barely six months earlier. These operations, on both sides, shaped the tactics used in World War II in battles such as El Alamein, conducted by one of the promising young leaders of World War I, Bernard Montgomery.
In contrast, the many costly small frontal attacks now being conducted by the Russian army are infinitely less sophisticated than either the German or Allied assaults of 1918. Indeed, on all evidence, the Russian army today is well-nigh incapable of conducting modern combined-arms warfare at scale.
In some respects, the Russian military is now a pre-1918 army. Captured orders and observed behavior suggest an army that struggles to do much more than throw huge quantities of artillery shells at an enemy and then advance, often piecemeal, into a meat grinder. Conducting systematic reconnaissance, coordinating artillery and air support on the move, applying deep precision fires, executing combined-arms tactics, and synchronizing the maneuvering of large units all seem to be beyond the reach of the large majority of Russian forces. Although the Ukrainians do not have the capacity to coordinate and maneuver the way the United States Army does, they are a lot better than the Russians. The defeat of Russian forces outside Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson reveals as much.
If the actual history of the First World War doesn’t offer grounds for abandoning Ukraine, how about the Second? After all, some Russian propagandists and Western pessimists point to that war as evidence of the futility of hoping to defeat the successors of the mighty Red Army. In this view Russia is, as t
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