extraordinarily attritional, the sort of battles around bakhmut and the like, casualties on a scale which would be recognisable by any veteran who had thought through passchendaele or verdun in the first world war, they appear to be culminating, and the more russia fires its expendable manpower against the ukrainians, yes, the ukrainians are suffering and yes, they are taking heavy casualties, but i don't think the russians can continue indefinitely. to the lay observer, russian tactics don't seem to have evolved much since the second world war, i mean, hammer an objective with loads of heavy artillery and eventually send infantry to crawl over the rubble. i think what we see is a soviet military machine which is in a sense reflecting the state that it stirs, which is corrupt and incompetent, but nevertheless, that incompetence bears a danger because as a result
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