The War in the Ukraine
- Thread starter SampanViking
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Daym.
Considering how Middle East countries apparently normalizing relations with Syria now. Those "Revolutionaries" in Idlib and Northern Syria will gonna need a new line of work soon, and this could be one.
There could be like fresh 10-50K influx of battle tested forces from there.
current understanding is that Prigozhin managed to blackmail MOD into consistently getting almost half of its daily ammo usage, at the expense of others.
It means he alone was firing, on a daily basis, more than the whole Ukrainian army. You can see that.
He probably used it to better effect all things considered.
i don’t think the casualt in Bakhmut favored Ukraine.
Now they have to try it in a muddy mine field and under fire. Doser blade on a tank is not new...
In fact, that has already happened.
One of the Chechen commanders, Khusein Dzhambetov, switched sides and now works for Kadyrov, one of the reasons cited is that he had a conflict with a Ukrainian Nazi unit and ended up in a shootout in which several Nazis were killed. Basically they insulted him, his religion etc.
Ugh.. now imagine having over 10K+ FSA volunteer there and they were happen to be Muslims. One problem i see from Western narratives and basically cultures are They always think other people in the same side will have same kind of thoughts and shares same value. One can say "these volunteers are in Ukraine so they should respect and also do value of democracy" Which never the case. Desecration of Quraan and insults toward our prophet will always guarantee harsh response regardless of where the person being insulted in.
But that's all as cultural problem discussion would derail the thread. I will stop here.
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Mercs generaly perform badly in big wars. Wagner are a bit different case due to how much it is integrated into Russian MOD and being from same country. But even them have issues and tensions with military. Plus good mercs are not cheap.
Add to this that FSA/ISIS fighters, especially those that decided to make easy $ are not the best of the best of humans. I would not be surprised if something like Bacha Bazi like in Afghanistan(turning blind eye to this, did "help" US win "hearths and minds") would reemerge as result. And this with different language.
For latest example you can look on defeat of Saudi Arabia in Yemen. Mercs from different countries are not answer to lack of manpower.
By the maps the assaults with low casuality required capret shelling the area fater then the replenishment time, and mop up with the stormtroopers.
On few pictures the attacked area is like a road burned by explosives.
It require extreme ammount of shells.
And at the same time the RF army banking shells for the expected offensiv.
Rare footage of Gepard in action shooting down a Shahed UAV.