The YouTube channel Perun has an excellent video on the actual tactics ans nature of the front lines at the moment.
The TLDR, is its part WW1 in term of it being a defence and artillery dominated battlefield, but neither side has the manpower to concentrate defenders into solid lines, so you get a large grey zone of trenches and basements with small teams infiltrating hundreds of meters beyond eachother.
Didn’t Russia stop using “meatwave tactics” long time ago? Now i keep hearing that they send only few people to show that they conquer more terrain than they acually do. Which one is it? Is it the same story as russia being so weak that is about to collapse any moment, but at the same time strong enough to threaten europe? Schrödinger Russia
Both can be true in this case, they have the population to sustain it, however the economy is on borrowed time, just like any war. Ukraine is attacking the economy. So the war weariness is increasing. The population has a constant supply of new births however unless you maintain the economy it won’t grow on its own, unless you capture more land or production facilities.
It’s how the us effectively lost the Vietnam war, it was a political loss, the war weariness caught up on them. Yes they won ever battle, yes they still had the manufacturing output, however they had to pull out. The same thing is happening right now in the us-iran war, and probably why troops haven’t engaged in a land invasion yet.
I do get what you are thinking, it sounds like fascist propaganda that the enemy is weak and strong at the same time, but I think it falls apart a bit once propaganda becomes an actual war, and economies are involved
The Russian commitment to meatwave tactics in the face of such disastrous results against superior tech, strategy, and tactics is a sight to behold.
They’re blowing the whistles and charging into machine gun fire circa WW1.
The YouTube channel Perun has an excellent video on the actual tactics ans nature of the front lines at the moment.
The TLDR, is its part WW1 in term of it being a defence and artillery dominated battlefield, but neither side has the manpower to concentrate defenders into solid lines, so you get a large grey zone of trenches and basements with small teams infiltrating hundreds of meters beyond eachother.
Didn’t Russia stop using “meatwave tactics” long time ago? Now i keep hearing that they send only few people to show that they conquer more terrain than they acually do. Which one is it? Is it the same story as russia being so weak that is about to collapse any moment, but at the same time strong enough to threaten europe? Schrödinger Russia
Both can be true in this case, they have the population to sustain it, however the economy is on borrowed time, just like any war. Ukraine is attacking the economy. So the war weariness is increasing. The population has a constant supply of new births however unless you maintain the economy it won’t grow on its own, unless you capture more land or production facilities.
It’s how the us effectively lost the Vietnam war, it was a political loss, the war weariness caught up on them. Yes they won ever battle, yes they still had the manufacturing output, however they had to pull out. The same thing is happening right now in the us-iran war, and probably why troops haven’t engaged in a land invasion yet.
I do get what you are thinking, it sounds like fascist propaganda that the enemy is weak and strong at the same time, but I think it falls apart a bit once propaganda becomes an actual war, and economies are involved