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The static phase of operations allows counterbattery fire planning; counterbattery stops the instant the battlefield turns mobile again. Russian counterattacks are their highest attrition activity outside of Bakhmut. Everyone would do well to stop focusing so much on meaningless territorial exchanges and start examining the quality of the units coming into, and out of, the line instead. Each side is trying to manage the attrition better than the other side. Maps are less useful right now than they have ever been.
Doesn't look like there is any plan in the west to provide Ukraine with the support it needs. Especially with this House Speaker mess. Given that, I guess there is a certain logic that prolonging a stalemate isn't optimal. What are the odds now of a cease-fire this year in your opinion?
Is it BS that Moscow might have played a role in instigating Hamas to attack Israel? Or unclear? Seems like this will be the end of using stockpiles in Israel to give to Ukraine.
The static phase of operations allows counterbattery fire planning; counterbattery stops the instant the battlefield turns mobile again. Russian counterattacks are their highest attrition activity outside of Bakhmut. Everyone would do well to stop focusing so much on meaningless territorial exchanges and start examining the quality of the units coming into, and out of, the line instead. Each side is trying to manage the attrition better than the other side. Maps are less useful right now than they have ever been.
This is probably right, but we just can't really see attrition on either side. All we can see is the territory changing hands.
Great stuff.
Situation feels kind of bleak for Ukraine.
Doesn't look like there is any plan in the west to provide Ukraine with the support it needs. Especially with this House Speaker mess. Given that, I guess there is a certain logic that prolonging a stalemate isn't optimal. What are the odds now of a cease-fire this year in your opinion?
Is it BS that Moscow might have played a role in instigating Hamas to attack Israel? Or unclear? Seems like this will be the end of using stockpiles in Israel to give to Ukraine.