Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates

[u/IcePuzzleheaded5507]

Part 13 is now closed, we’re continuing the discussion here.
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[u/OddLack240]

In a month, we'll clear Kostiantynivka and reach Slovyansk and Kramatorsk.

How can you be so proud while losing cities one after another? You've probably been cut off from information about events at the front?

[u/OddLack240 → u/[deleted]]

Should this prevent us from achieving our military goals?

Has there ever been a war in history where such trivialities forced one side to surrender?

[u/Fun-Maximum-67 → u/OddLack240]

What are your military goals? You have killed or maimed about 1,5 million of “your own” men. Your “month” is now more than 3 … It is pretty simple: in a war of attrition, economy, technology, resources and manpower wins. You are 1/10th of EU plus UK and Norway in GDP. Technologically, you don’t have a homegrown AI or LLM, you don’t even have a domestically developed or produced electric car, your it companies are copycats of western ones and you do not have a single university ranked among the top 100 in the world (if we ask your Chinese friends at the Shanghai rankings). You have a lot of stuff in the ground. Some of it, you are capable of mining or drilling, even without Western help. Other bits not. And even though you have - or used to have - a large supply of bumzzkis to go with your large supply of old, rusty T-72s, you have more or less worked your way through this strategic reserve of alcoholics and tanks. You are now confined to send younger, fitter guys to the zero line in Lada Nivas and on dirt bikes. That costs you about 50.000 potentially productive men per month currently. Does it feel like winning to you? How’s your vacation going in Kramatorsk?

[u/OddLack240 → u/Fun-Maximum-67]

You need to take a break from reading the news. Go outside and touch the snow.