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[–] Spacebar 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Artillery shells. Ukraine still has less of them than Russia. Russia out fires Ukraine by a good margin. Until Ukraine can reach at least parity, the counter offensive will be slow and painful.

Ukraine can't and shouldn't waste the lives of its soldiers. Russia has no problem doing so.

Western countries are ramping up the production of shells, but it takes time. Until that happens, don't expect Ukraine to liberate its territory.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention Ukraine doesn't want to just flatten a village with artillery

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Flat village with no Russians > almost flat village with Russians

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's wrong with your E key?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps English is his second language and Ukrain is how he spells it in his native language.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But then they use the e in the last sentence? I'm so confused.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh dang, I didn't even see the final one. Not sure then. He has other e's spread out through the text though so maybe just a weird affectation?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Autocorrect probably got confused. I use two languages and autocorrect on my phone messes up the spelling sometimes for similarly spelt words.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Don't use mixed autocorrect. Its a mess. I always simply switch before typing.

[–] Spacebar 1 points 1 year ago

No idea why Ukraine is somehow auto changing to Ukrain. Embarrassing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Not just artillery shells, the Russians are far better equipped with anything air. The have way more and better planes and helicopters and way more AA. I'm just an armchair general but it's insane to me that Russia can't profit more from this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God war sucks.

At some point I find myself almost wishing for terrorism, like sneak a few Ukrainians in over the Suny Oblast area border and blow up commercial buildings at night...

Then I remember that the whole thing breaks if Ukrainians start being as bad as Russia. (Not that it would be as bad as what they have done, but few people would support that)

[–] RadButNotAChad 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would support it. Make the average citizen of Russia feel as unsafe as the Ukranians feel. I'm not saying target civilians, but make it known you can. Russia isn't playing by the rules. If Russia manages to crush Ukraine, will anyone sleep better at night going 'At least Ukraine played fair'.

[–] jwmgregory 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

you guys are fucking crazy. ukrainian government knows there’s a very tangible and real possibility of defeat, or at the least concessions to russia during negotiations. do you really think it is in their best interests to let the kremlin make claims about ukrainian acts of terror during that stage?? like it or not, the world isnt some fucking equitable, fair fairy tale. russia has significantly more bargaining power here. they can afford ukraine making such claims, that doesn’t matter. on the flip side, ukraine cannot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for a sane take on this. War isn't tit for tat, war is incredibly unfair

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Defenders always have home field advantage.

Basically means in war, if one side is attacking and one side is defending, the odds are in the defenders favor. As they can deploy mines, IEDs, traps, advance structural defenses, turrets, and ambushes locations.

Which is why it was so stupid to invade Ukraine in the first place and why it is going to be hard for Ukraine to take back territory.