Ukraine's conscription crisis is getting increasingly bloody - While outside voices insist the war can still be won on the battlefield, young men in the country are violently resisting recruiters to stay out of it
Posted by anarchyart2021@reddit | EndlessWar | View on Reddit | 6 comments
True-Alfalfa8974@reddit
Fortunately for Ukraine, Russia’s general staff is incompetent and unable to finish the war. Russians were recently turned back in Zaporizhzhia in the south and Liman in the North. Attempts to establish buffer zones around sumy and Kharkiv have failed miserably. Doesn’t look like the Donbas will fall this year either, if ever. I’ve hear this manpower shortage argument for 3 years now, and I’ve never seen Russia take advantage of it. For example, the failed Kursk offensive of Ukraine should have resulted in the collapse of the Ukrainian lines going all the way to Sumy. It didn’t. The Russians were only able to move a few kilometers and Sumy seems out of reach.
ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
In a war of attrition degrading enemy capabilities is more important than capturing territory especially if additional resources are going to be required to control and police the territory.
Russia made an advance into a territory, did not like the strategic defensive value of it and moved back to a more favorable defensive position.
The important part is that nato keeps sending waves into Russian kill zones and attritting their military capabilities and reserve capacities.
A food+energy+indrustrial exporter can sustain war of attrition much longer than enemies that have to import energy and technological components.
t1enne@reddit
imo sustaining war longer than Ukraine isn't a great objective. It will surely make Ukraine a rump state. I think Russia is taking on an enormous economical burden and falling behind on tech progress compared to US and China. I think that's the great conflict of our times. Winning vs Ukraine after 5 years of conflict will be less satisfying than we imagined.
ZhukovWonWWII@reddit
You seem to have it all backward. War is the great innovator. Russian weapon tech is now three generations ahead of US and China. A war economy is the excuse every government needs to spend unrestrained on technology that would be frowned upon by general populace during peacetime.
For example Russia domestically produced photolithography machines that use a solid laser unlike the western gas powered lasers. End result is 30% more efficiency. Bigger impact that the micro-chip infrastructure is now mapped out by Russians and will take years or decades for nato to fully decode and understand. Even bigger impact that there are no western backdoors into those chips anymore.
PleasantPersimmon798@reddit
Wroten by a Serb, still loyal to his motherland, lol
IceKingSolar27@reddit
The young ones are always least likely to delude themselves in the face of the truth in the absence of manipulation from those they’re to trust.