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I'm so tired of this narrative, there are unmotivated couch potatoes at every age. My father is one of them, since he's retired he's done absolutely nothing. There's also plenty of adults who sit around on their ass all day doing nothing instead of working. Meanwhile, me and most of my friends...

My question is not so much whether Ukraine benefits from holding Bakhmut, since they clearly do. It's more that I think there's a greater benefit to falling back to more established lines that only face attack from one side. That said, the situation has appeared to stablize around Bakhmut for...

Ohh yes, in terms of value, obviously a fighter jet is more valuable. I was merely commenting on the relative costs in dollar amounts.

In this case no, an SU-27 costs roughly the same. Something like an F-35 costs a lot more, but still nowhere 10 times as much. That would mean 300 million per airframe (which could be the lifetime cost idk, but definitely is not the unit cost) These Reaper drones aren't like the tiny drones...

Apparently the cost of the drone is 32m before surveillance equipment. So a touch more than a few million.

I agree. I also hope it is not the case but I fear it is. Ultimately only time will tell. I have heard a rumour that Ukraine is massing troops around Chasiv Yar for a counter offensive but that seems unlikely to me for the time being.

I was about to share this tweet myself

I simply don't buy it. Of course the government is going to defend their decisions. Vast majority of military based analysis I have seen indicates defending Bakhmut at this point is foolish. They have new defensive lines ready to go. Even key members of the Ukrainian military feel this way and...

I'd argue that it's not strategic but political. Zelensky has staked a lot on defending Bakhmut and doesn't want to withdraw. Certain regional commanders in Ukraine have virtually said as much in recent days. I could be wrong and I certainly hope there's sound strategic doctrine here, but I...

Yes but they've had those ratios throughout the course of the war and better. They're under fire from three sides. If they retreat and engage from more secure positions that ratio will go even higher. 5:1 is not a bad ratio by any means but Ukraine is expending some of their most experienced...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/09/ukraine-bakhmut-heavy-casualties-russia-war

I have to disagree with this. It made sense in Mariupol because they were genuinely surrounded and had nowhere to go. The remainder of the troops were going to be taken out of action no matter what, either KIA or POWs. Of course in the scenario where you are inevitably going to lose and have...

As far as I am aware, yes.

Ukrainian forces need to leave Bakhmut. There insistance to fight at all costs is going to result in either high casualties or a significant number of POWs. Either would be a significant strategic mistake, though I'd argue it already is one given there are no safe routes out of the city.

There's definitely some stuff that could be said of both Putin and Biden's speeches today. Russia still seems to be getting nowhere on the ground but more interestingly there are rumours that Russia is going to try and capture the Chisinau international airport and that Moldova is preparing...

The Guardian is now reporting that the Leopard tanks given to Ukraine will fall far short of the hundreds pledged and could only reach as little as a single tank battalion (aka about 30) due to the state of disrepair of many of the tanks in storage. I must say that is both highly embarrassing...

The issue here, if im not mistaken, is the Americans were closer. Both Canadian and US jets were scrambled but the US base was way closer and so they arrived first and as a result Trudeau had them take it down. I do agree I would rather it have been our planes but I think this moreso exposes...

Why? When you have thousands of high rise buildings in a densely populated area completely collapse, 100,000 is not a crazy number. 3 days in and it's already past 20,000 now. Look at some pictures. The scale of this disaster is unfathomable. Edit: not to mention that the official figure in...

When I saw the intial reports I didn't think it was going to be that bad, but this is a disaster of apocalyptic proportions. Over 5000 buildings destroyed death toll already nearly 12,000 I've seen some estimates say it could rise over 100,000

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/29/amid-the-smoke-of-war-power-in-europe-is-shifting-decisively-to-the-east Don't agree with everything in this article but it echoes some of what we've discussed here