I would say Ukraine had to fire on all cylinders earlier in the war when it didn’t have enough artillery, Russia was still a mechanized professional military with an institutional capacity to spread valuable knowledge from veterans to recruits and had an actual organizational ability to conduct armored manuevers or even risky mass helicopter assaults.
Now that Ukraine has the proper artillery support Russia is getting a devastating and deserved wake up call that they never had the advantage they assumed they did and what is worse for them is Ukraine has demonstrated it can beat Russia with or without sufficient artillery support, meaning Russia is logically pretty fucked when Ukraine has fully saturated its military with artillery support.
To me the question is what does Ukraine look like firing on all or even just most cylinders with proper artillery support? We are beginning to see the answer and if it doesn’t scare the shit out of Russian higher ups in the military staff they are idiots.
Ukraine was functionally set up to fail by having never been given enough artillery to stop a Russian invasion, but Ukraine decided not to fail anyways. The thing I wonder is after this is over and the dust settles how are Ukrainians going to feel about having been denied the kind of artillery support by supposed “allies” that will undoubtedly help them flatten the Russian invasion like an anvil going forward. I don’t know, it will be great to see Ukraine succeed but there is a bitterness to the obvious reflection that if this kind of support had been provided earlier many more Ukrainians wouldn’t have had to die protecting their country.
It only took 3 years and 100k+ deaths but it finally feels like we have Ukraine firing on all cylinders now.
I would say Ukraine had to fire on all cylinders earlier in the war when it didn’t have enough artillery, Russia was still a mechanized professional military with an institutional capacity to spread valuable knowledge from veterans to recruits and had an actual organizational ability to conduct armored manuevers or even risky mass helicopter assaults.
Now that Ukraine has the proper artillery support Russia is getting a devastating and deserved wake up call that they never had the advantage they assumed they did and what is worse for them is Ukraine has demonstrated it can beat Russia with or without sufficient artillery support, meaning Russia is logically pretty fucked when Ukraine has fully saturated its military with artillery support.
To me the question is what does Ukraine look like firing on all or even just most cylinders with proper artillery support? We are beginning to see the answer and if it doesn’t scare the shit out of Russian higher ups in the military staff they are idiots.
Ukraine was functionally set up to fail by having never been given enough artillery to stop a Russian invasion, but Ukraine decided not to fail anyways. The thing I wonder is after this is over and the dust settles how are Ukrainians going to feel about having been denied the kind of artillery support by supposed “allies” that will undoubtedly help them flatten the Russian invasion like an anvil going forward. I don’t know, it will be great to see Ukraine succeed but there is a bitterness to the obvious reflection that if this kind of support had been provided earlier many more Ukrainians wouldn’t have had to die protecting their country.