Originally Posted by bellydeep
Originally Posted by Fubarski
Russia will destroy all of cuckraine they want.

Russia will take all the territory it wants.

Russia will then pull back, withdrawing units intact under their artillery and air umbrella, grinding down Ukrainian heavy equipment stocks and wearing away their manpower.

Meanwhile, new equipment continues to congregate in Belgorod, Zaporizhia, and Crimea.

SO, it's gonna go like this: Episodic Russian withdrawal until troops are put in place and the front stabilizes (roughly at the end of October), followed by an operational pause until the ground freezes.

Then, Russia will escalate with a winter offensive by Russia once the troop reinforcements are in place.

Don't forget: cuckrainian "victories" which retake some ground abandoned by Russia but do not involve the capture or destruction of significant Russian military assets is Twitter war, i.e., bullshit, as we have seen in the past.

cuckraine has claimed surrounded Russian troops on numerous occasions, which have turned out ta be bullshit.

The well-documented logistics buildups in Crimea, Belgorod, Belarus and other places is a strong indicator of what's about ta happen.

Idiots, concern trolls and war pornsters fluff cuckraine, while the real military power does their thing.

That raises the questions:

1) Why hasn’t Russia taken everything it wants already?

2) Why hasn’t the umbrella already knocked the Ukes back?

It sounds like you’re saying Russia is like a cat playing with a mouse. It looks more like some hulking, drunk goon in a bar tried starting a fight with a smaller guy, and the smaller guy turned out to be a featherweight boxing champ. Suddenly, the outcome of the fight doesn’t look so certain.

I agree Russia is building up for a counter-offensive. That’s what you do when the other side launches and effective offensive. But I don’t think the recent Uke gains were expected nor tactically planned by Russia.

This looks like a loss (at least temporarily) and an embarrassment for Russia, much like the 40 mile convoy that the commie-lovers all swore was some kind of a genius feint. Funny, the commie-lovers don’t want to bring that up anymore.



To answer the question I put in bold: Putin wanted to take back what he wanted with limited infrastructure damage. It does him no good to have to rebuild an area he destroyed. I think he was holding back. He may or may not have expected the support Ukraine received primarily from the US. With that said, the gloves came off with the bridge bombing. Kiev is in big trouble, as is most of the country come winter. I don't think he wanted to put them in the dark and cold, since he needs to show some form of restraint when it comes to civilians. They poked him with a stick, and he hit them back with club.

JMO


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