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> That was hardly a decisive victory Of course it was, Kupiansk is a very important railway junction[1] and the whole front collapsed after it was captured. Sp

by mopsi 4y ago

> That was hardly a decisive victory Of course it was, Kupiansk is a very important railway junction[1] and the whole front collapsed after it was captured. Speed of the operation was nothing short of amazing. In mere days Ukraine liberated more than Russia had captured in months of heavy fighting with insane losses, worst since WW2. In large parts of Ukraine's northeast, Russia was pushed back to state border and there is virtually no fighting anymore beyond sporadic Russian revenge attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure. This is dictionary definition of a decisive victory. Russian forces have left the Sumy-Kharkiv region and the fighting over Ukraine's north-east has finished. [1] https://d1c4d7gnm6as1q.cloudfront.net/Pictures/web/c/e/b/ukrainemoldova_584086.svgz https://d1c4d7gnm6as1q.cloudfront.net/Pictures/web/c/e/b/ukr... > and Russia has not applied the full forces of its military in this "operation" - yet. Why are police officers dragging pilots from airliner cockpits[2] and sending as cannon fodder to the frontlines if there is no desperate shortage of manpower? Why is Putin's right-hand man touring prisons to recruit rapists and murderers?[3] The clock is ticking on Kherson and it is only a question of time when Ukraine will liberate it, Ukraine already conducted a successful limited operation and liberated a lot of ground north of Kherson. Why isn't the "full force" brought in to stop the humiliating series of defeats? [2] https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1580907603101896704 https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1580907603101896704 [3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/20/russia-recruits-inmates-ukraine-war-wagner-prigozhin https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/20/russia-recruit... > You'd be a lot wiser if you actually paid attention to what Russia, itself, has to say about the situation - not that you can, given the censorship regime being imposed on you by your own military, alas... I don't think even Russian MoD claims that there is no Russian regular army in Ukraine. Who told you that?

aa-jv 4y ago
>Why isn't the "full force" brought in to stop the humiliating series of defeats? Because Putin doesn't have the power to do such a thing: he is not a dictator, Western agitprop notwithstanding. Same reason Bush had to invent a phony "war on terror" excuse to get around the requirement that he get - democratically - Congress' permission to declare war on the world. >I don't think even Russian MoD claims that there is no Russian regular army in Ukraine. Who told you that? The Russians themselves. You probably don't have access to their statements, though .. or haven't tried very hard to find them yourself. This was a "special military operation" because Putins Presidency is not a total dictatorship. Conditions for declaring total war were not in place - they are now, however. The West likes to think this "special military operation" represents the totality of Russian military power being applied - and failing - but this is a very, very dangerous mistake to make.
- trasz 4y ago
  >The Russians themselves. Ah. Now I suspect I know what you're talking about: the terror campaign. Essentially what Russia did in Syria - they don't stand a chance against a proper army, but they definitely can commit genocide and level entire cities, like they did in Mariupol. So, yes, indeed, they are starting to do it again. But because they have already spent most of the tools they could use to do it - we know that because they are forced to use very expensive weapons in a way that doesn't make any sense, like attacking ground targets using anti-ship missiles - it will quickly fizzle out. They got one last push using Iranian ghetto-drones, but even those are in limited quantity - all of this stuff depends on western parts.

by mopsi 4y ago

aa-jv 4y ago

>Why isn't the "full force" brought in to stop the humiliating series of defeats? Because Putin doesn't have the power to do such a thing: he is not a dictator, Western agitprop notwithstanding. Same reason Bush had to invent a phony "war on terror" excuse to get around the requirement that he get - democratically - Congress' permission to declare war on the world. >I don't think even Russian MoD claims that there is no Russian regular army in Ukraine. Who told you that? The Russians themselves. You probably don't have access to their statements, though .. or haven't tried very hard to find them yourself. This was a "special military operation" because Putins Presidency is not a total dictatorship. Conditions for declaring total war were not in place - they are now, however. The West likes to think this "special military operation" represents the totality of Russian military power being applied - and failing - but this is a very, very dangerous mistake to make.

trasz 4y ago
>The Russians themselves. Ah. Now I suspect I know what you're talking about: the terror campaign. Essentially what Russia did in Syria - they don't stand a chance against a proper army, but they definitely can commit genocide and level entire cities, like they did in Mariupol. So, yes, indeed, they are starting to do it again. But because they have already spent most of the tools they could use to do it - we know that because they are forced to use very expensive weapons in a way that doesn't make any sense, like attacking ground targets using anti-ship missiles - it will quickly fizzle out. They got one last push using Iranian ghetto-drones, but even those are in limited quantity - all of this stuff depends on western parts.