Ukraine is making massive headway against Russia right now. Putin’s forces are crumbling all over the front line. So my question is this.
Should Ukraine keep hammering Russia even after they have regained all of their territory?
Because all Putin will do is lick his wounds and rebuild. (if his own people haven’t taken him out that is)
I’m not saying stepping onto Russian soil, but simply continue to destroy Russia’s military until they’re so broken they will never recover quickly. If at all.
What do you think?
The tide has shifted with Russias manpower crunch and lack of access to needed frontline coms systems.
Really? Because this past week Russia deliveres the large number of glidebombs in a single assault ever, and the deepest penetration of a cable-driven drone ever. Sounds like it’s more of the same cope-basee reporting and the actual reality in the ground is a slow ebb and flow of trading shots.
Could be. But also keep in mind that Ukraine had to spend the first three years of this war building a military industrial complex, starting practically from scratch. That just… takes time. And it’s a flywheel that once it’s going isn’t going to slow down.
It’s hard to find good analysis on what’s really happening and I’ve found focusing on week to week events isn’t really helpful. Stepping back and looking at month to month, when we get to mid March. Things might seem very different.
Yes, imagining the entire war has changed because of a single week is certainly something we learned not to do in the first year of the conflict. I agree.
Regarding your theory that in the last 4 years Ukraine built a flywheel of military industry…
As you say, they are now producing over 2 million drones in a year.
However, summaries from Gemini indicate that Ukraine has lost about 50% of its electrical generation and 60% of all manufacturing, including the majority of their domestic steel production, and that these things are getting worse, not better, with the majority of degradation happening in the second half of the last four years.
So while Ukraine is definitely pumping out more, cheaper kamikaze drones to throw at the enemy, Russia is destroying their ability to power the factories that do this and destroying their critical industrial inputs.
We will definitely see over the spring what the math maths out to.
I’m not sure why you would use a chat bot as the basis of argument. It’s not a valid form of information.
It’s just the easiest way to gather information right now. I could try to dig up sufficient reports to corroborate those percentages, but it takes time and I didn’t really have that kind of time today. If I get better sources, I’ll edit the post and add them
it’s the easiest way to gather words that sound like information
The entire war changed in a single day in Sept 2022 when Ukraine regained 6000 sq km in Kharkiv. That was when Russia still had tanks and contract soldiers that could speak Russian instead of today when they speak Swazi or Korean with a heavy northern accent.