• Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    They are trying so hard to hide the reality of Ukraine’s situation that the article makes absolutely no sense. The map at the top of the article has no relation to what the headline says, and the article itself is just a list of events with no actual analysis.

    Also, were apparently supposed to care that Putin targeted a maternity ward and civilian targets, whilst at the same time not care that Israel has annihilated hospitals and civilian targets in Gaza.

    This is unironically the doublespeak of 1984.

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              10 months ago

              What more am I going to say other than both things are bad? I’m not even saying that there should be equal time given to both issues, since Ukraine is being given billions of dollars to fight back and Palestine isn’t.

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        10 months ago

        I’m pointing out the hypocrisy of Western media reporting and their attempts to manipulate public opinion to condemn these actions in one conflict (Ukraine-Russia), but to ignore or even support them in another (Palestine-Israel).

        I’m not saying that I care about one and not the other, but that the media (and our governments) want us to.

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    10 months ago

    This assessment assumes that gaining territory is the only thing that matters in warfare, which is the kind of assessment you make if you’ve never studied warfare.

    What matters is not that Ukraine fell back from Avdiivka, it’s what it cost Putin to take it. In other words, you can win a war by losing ground if you do it right. Russia should know this well; its how they beat the Nazis.

    Ukraine’s offensives tend not to see serious movement at the moment because when they meet strong resistance they back off. The Russians, on the other hand, hurl themselves into strong resistance over and over, at a huge cost in men and materiel. Essentially Ukraine is pursuing a strategy of allowing the Russians to grind themselves to death against their defences, while launching probing counterattacks to test the remaining strength of the Russian defences, never over-committing to the attack so as to minimise their own losses.

    This strategy is effective because attacking a defensive position is always more costly and difficult than defending. Ukraine wants Russia to be on the attack, because that’s where they can apply attrition most efficiently.

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    10 months ago

    For anyone who’s been following along, Russia should have been able to take Avdivka over a year ago. For it to have taken this long really says everything. If this is a “turning point” in the war, there is still quite a lot of room for optimism.

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    10 months ago

    Longest 3 days ever.

    Edit: sorry for sharing my remembrance of lil’ putler’s failures.