It sucks if you're a Russian tank crewman. They (tanks) are basically portable cremation units.

Tactical retreat by ground forces is wise at times. Intelligent commission officers do not want to waste the lives of enlisted men.

Marines at the O-6 and higher requested 10 days of USN battleship guns on the Island of Iwo Jima before ground forces went in. Only 3 days of battleship guns, Iwo Jima. Would a tactical retreat of 1/3 or more of Marines on Iwo Jima after 1st week been wise to allow battleship guns to do their job? Seven additional days of battleship guns to soften the resistance? If that would have occurred, maybe the island would have been taken sooner and fewer Marines and Sailors may have died.

Bottom line, Ukraine cannot win. Are the posters cheerleading for U.S. involvement in Ukraine just obedient followers of Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon? Maybe more sinister. All or most who cheer U.S. involvement in Ukraine may be employees &/or shareholders of weapon manufacturers. [I am not counting those whom are involved with mutual funds and indices who purchase weapon manufacture shares. When one is involved with mutual funds and indices, one does not actually own shares, just bookkeeping units at mutual funds and indices. One needs to receive quarterly statements, voting shares and receive a personal invitation to annual meeting to be an actual shareholder.]

Well it is a certainty that the west will lose interest in Ukraine before Russia does.

Slaughtering invaders vs. slaughtering local inhabitants.

You may see these as the same. God does not. He will sort them out up there.

It's very clever that you completely absolve Putin of any responsibility in ending the invasion he started. Look, I can just as easily say that Zelensky isn't going to surrender to Tsar Putin, so there's only one person that can stop the dying. That's why, I called my Congressperson and told him to give Ukraine whatever they want, including longer range missiles (encouraging our allies to give them Storm Shadow cruise missiles, for example), anti-ship missiles, unlimited access to military intelligence, and stronger sanctions.

Putin will give up when he runs out of soldiers to send to their death. Anything that we can do to speed up the process is progress. Don't like it? Help Putin develop a terminal case of lead poising, courtesy of a 50 cal round.

You are "certain" about a lot of things, but hardly ever correct.

Any day now, we'll see the US & Ukrainian failure you have been hoping for since February.

Have we ever seen a worst army than these Russians, dead serious......they couldn't take Detroit.

You dont go to church. You are not a devout believer. Youre not a scientist either. You were speaking out of place in the covid threads and you are speaking out of place here as well.

Why should we trust you?

You have no idea what you were talking about. Maybe you should do some reading about why the Japanese soldiers were not affected by artillery there.

All of the information is available at your fingertips but you are unwilling to use it.

Most armies are worse. Defense is much easier than offense. Russian isn't the exception in the world it's the norm. The western armies are light years ahead of the rest of the world.

United States – 6,812 killed/missing
2 captured
19,217 wounded

Japan – 21,844 killed
216 captured

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Assuming all "casualties" are deaths is a common error among people who don't actually follow military history.

It is unfortunate that these Russian crews have been put in harms way. However, they are inflicting a lot of damage on Ukrainian citizens. Therefore they must be taken out by any means necessary by the people they are attacking.

The number of people matters much less (within reason) in modern warfare than the number and types of weapons. And if you're trying to attack, you need a 3-1 ratio of personnel anyway if you want to suceed.

Given that Russia's entire military budget is only 8% the size of the USA's military budget (let alone the budget for the whole of Nato), and that Ukraine's logistics capabilities seem to be superior to Russia's, and that US/Nato are providing much better intelligence (spy satellites, AWACs, etc) than Russia - my bet is that Russia will actually lose this war if it's prosecuted to the bitter end. Just having more soldiers is useless in the face of modern mechanised warfare.

Today Nato agreed to supply more and heavier weapons to Ukraine, an acknowledgement that the war in Donbas is likely to be long and bloody. Nato can outspend Russia forever, even ignoring Russia's slow-implosion economy (15-40% reduction by Dec).

I think the "special farming operation" (turning Russian soldiers into fertiliser) will beat the "special military operation".

A recent poll puts the support of US citizens for Ukraine at a 70 percent level. If you think that "all or most" are employees or direct shareholders of weapons manufacturers, you don't know much about the United States workforce and shareholding patterns.

I haven't seen a second of Blitzer, Cooper or Lemon coverage of the Ukraine situation and you are deluding yourself if you think many people are 'obedient followers' of those talking heads. I am not denying that media coverage has an effect on public perception, but the total picture is much more complicated. There is the fact that the US is in NATO and NATO and the US specifically have been named as the 'bad guy' by Putin. There is the national psyche of tending to support the underdog. There is a sense of the injustice of the invasion aside from media coverage. There is a belief that Putin is evil, based in large part on killing of political opponents, Russian actions in Syria, Chechnya and Crimea, and his pillage of Russian treasure for personal purposes.

Ultimately, resistance is Ukraine's choice. They can fight with Western support, or they can negotiate with at least some leverage due to perceived continued Western support. It appears that as of now, the choice of becoming, at best, a vassal state to a murderous thug and his troops who clearly have no regard for Ukrainian lives is not a desired choice.

WOW! a 50 cal.round? I have a 7.65 Mauser rifle that could do the job for half the price. I'd hate to be on the other end of your scope though. Are you a target shooter, hunter or both?

Out of date like the expensive modern nuclear aircraft carriers. Easy target. To lose one would bankrupt many a small country and wipe out the population of a whole town.

Actually the first two sentences in his post were spot on. If I ever happened to be unlucky enough to Commander in Chief during war time, I'd want generals and colonels who could make split second decisions without wasting time going up the chain of command. The side that makes the fewest mistakes usually wins. A good Commander's in Chief should stay out of the map room while the generals are using it.