puff [comrade/them]
@Kalibrated_Maps on twitter suggests that something like 25% of the Kursk salient has been liberated by Russia. Note that other maps show a larger salient and less Russian gains (bias, fog of war, etc.)
Sorry, I didn’t realize that you were the only one allowed to post here, or that every comment had to be a hive-minded positive historical monograph. I thought that ‘news’ included bad news as well as good, and that acknowledging defeats was both healthy and important. Obviously I was mistaken, and that dissenting opinions are not allowed.
(P.S., if you disagree, you are allowed to say so without telling others not to post; that’s what comments are for…)
It’s not impossible but honestly when people say this it just sounds like Russian cope. It might be decades before we know the truth from memoirs and leaks. That Russia “did not deploy even 10% of the troops that would require” is perfectly consistent with the idea that they intended to capture the hostemel airfield with a small team of crack troops so that they could fly a shit ton more troops in and land them at the airfield, but that failed because the Ukrainians rendered the airfield unusable. I.e., they didn’t deploy enough troops because their plan to fly more troops in failed. I don’t think it’s necessarily a western narrative to say that Russia underestimated Ukraine (ex-Soviet after all) and how much western ghouls would pour weapons to literal nazis there. Russia is now clearly winning but I doubt the current situation was what they had in mind, hence the withdrawals and change in strategy.
WARNING: Daily Mail scum source. This video by the daily heil hitler provides some semi-interesting commentary on how Russia failed to capture Kiev in 2022. I cannot comment on the reliability of any of the information presented but it gives the impression which many pro-Russian milbloggers agree with, that the initial Russian attack was a bit of a clusterfuck; after capturing Hostemel Airport outside Kiev, the Russians failed to get reinforcements there first. Of course with the way things are going I still think Russia is going to win, but I don’t know much about the beginning of the SMO since there was so much fog of war. The video has a bunch of lib brainworm shit in the second half.
