I cannot quite agree with the "good" part.
It seems that he (Harry Halem, Iternational Relations and Economics) agrees with me... for the most part.
Ukraine liberated right-bank Kherson Oblast
-I disagree, Russia abandoned the right bank. Yes, there was pressure but Jerson was not Bajmut; there was no batte for Jerson.
Russia, meanwhile, has obvious training constraints.
-Obvious? We have seen Russian infantry clearing trenches and dugouts, what are those constrains?
Russian troops advance in small units over several days, taking high casualties
-That is an often repeated mantra, but we don't have the actual casualty list of both sides for any given operation; Russia is returning 1.000 corpses, Ukraine 38.
supporting the Kremlin’s political efforts to compel Kyiv to accept a punitive peace deal.
-The Ukrainian situation is worse that in Istanbul, Ukraine should not expect a better deal now.
In each conventional conflict, only the United States fielded a force-wide reconnaissance-strike complex.
-This is a peer to peer conflict, like the Iraq-Iran was. "Expectation tended to outrun execution."
Historically speaking, protracted positional warfare...
-He should have avoided the whole paragraph.
makes a breakthrough extremely difficult, generating the firepower needed, massing forces without detection
-The same old problems every general had to face are even more complex today.
Once detected, a reconnaissance-strike complex allows the defending commander to rapidly concentrate fire
-If he has and can concentrate that fire. (Below, "fire superiority".)
by Ukraine’s deficit of infantry.
-That million of abducted men?
Volume of drone usage helps.
-Russian superiority.
Ukraine is likely to close this middlestrike gap in the coming months.
-Without electricity, how likely?
Ukrainian firms are producing middlestrike drones at a high rate.
-Why Russian firms cannot keep producing more than no-electricity Ukrainian firms?
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces has fielded new counter-drone weapons that will likely improve middlestrike effectiveness.
-Only Ukraine? I have been arguing in favor of more counter-drone weapons for some time now.
If a high enough concentration of middlestrikes is synchronized with mechanized forces, then in principle, it would be possible to effect a breakthrough.
-You have to achieve "fire superiority", as simple an as old as that.
UAS employment to support advancing mechanized forces, a problem that artillery faces during the exploitation phase of a combined-arms fight.
-SP artillery and air support, it has been invented already; you will have to move your drone teams too.
Russia’s political leadership does not seem to have demanded that its military execute a real breakthrough.
-It looks like he is saying that Russia does not want to advance faster.
confident in its (Russian) ability to maintain its current level of pressure for several years.
-He forgot to mention that Russia will collapse... in a couple of weeks.
About Beltramy...
He doesn't know that Malta is a country or he doesn't think that it is in the Mediterranean. He called (Russian Thread) bullfighting a "sport", it has been called "art", also torture; it is a spectacle. Maybe he never read (in general?) about generals killed by cannonballs; not a common occurrence in WWII. He mentioned the Spanish Empire. Well, US had slaves and was killing Indians too. How was he comparing the Spanish Empire to the Russian Empire, that had a chunk of America too? The French Empire, the British Empire... the Hittites, the Nubian Pharaohs, Alexander the Great? Did he mentioned the Mexica or the Inca Empire and how many Indians they killed? Talking about advancing slowly... he mentioned the "Conquista", also known as Reconquista, it took 800 hundred years. Yes, he was talking of America, if you don't know about something or you don't like it, just pretend it doesn't exists; like Malta.
As far as I can remember, because it was posted here, we had that admiral in a news conference after that strike.
I don't know if he is so proud of his ignorance that he wants to make sure that everyone knows about it all the time or if he is just a child with a, permanent, tantrum.
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