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?
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.