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You should read their articles, they offer plenty of insights with sources. You shouldn't view Russia as a unified block, there seem to be a lot of internal dr

You should read their articles, they offer plenty of insights with sources. You shouldn't view Russia as a unified block, there seem to be a lot of internal drama and politics going on, especially between Wagner and the Russian MoD, Kadyrov &co Russia loves symbols too: dates, ceremonies, "retaliations", &c. you gotta put a good shows to keep the wheel spinning. And what military tactic is there to send inaccurate drones and missiles in civilian areas in the first place ? They're not even remotely close to the front https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/01/putins-russian-critics-are-growing-ever-louder/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/01/putins-russian-critics-... https://www.dw.com/en/russia-can-wagner-head-yevgeny-prigozhin-challenge-putin/a-64744266 https://www.dw.com/en/russia-can-wagner-head-yevgeny-prigozh...

pydry 4y ago
I dont view Russia as a wholly unified bloc (indeed, for personal reasons it would be a sheer impossibility for me to do so), and I'm well aware of prigozhin's trolling. I would find it hard to take that man at his word if he declared that the sky was blue. I dont think that there is any evidence that either are relevant here though. >And what military tactic is there to send inaccurate drones and missiles in civilian areas in the first place ? To tie up and overwhelm their air defences so that they have to be spread more thinly and can't be concentrated at the front. I forget the exact numbers but the drones were something like $10k and ended up being shot down by $500k missiles. Indeed it was an economically efficient tactic if the goal is to degrade ukrainian AA.
- lm28469 4y ago
  > if the goal is to degrade ukrainian AA Why would you degrade Kyiv AA if you can't even take Bakhmut ? It's not like Kyiv AA will stop the Russian current operations 700km away
  - pydry 4y ago
    So that air power can safely be used in future offensives. AA deployed in Kiev is AA not deployed in Bakhmut.

pydry 4y ago

I dont view Russia as a wholly unified bloc (indeed, for personal reasons it would be a sheer impossibility for me to do so), and I'm well aware of prigozhin's trolling. I would find it hard to take that man at his word if he declared that the sky was blue. I dont think that there is any evidence that either are relevant here though. >And what military tactic is there to send inaccurate drones and missiles in civilian areas in the first place ? To tie up and overwhelm their air defences so that they have to be spread more thinly and can't be concentrated at the front. I forget the exact numbers but the drones were something like $10k and ended up being shot down by $500k missiles. Indeed it was an economically efficient tactic if the goal is to degrade ukrainian AA.

lm28469 4y ago
> if the goal is to degrade ukrainian AA Why would you degrade Kyiv AA if you can't even take Bakhmut ? It's not like Kyiv AA will stop the Russian current operations 700km away
- pydry 4y ago
  So that air power can safely be used in future offensives. AA deployed in Kiev is AA not deployed in Bakhmut.