More and more I'm starting to wonder if hunkering down in Kiev was a fatal blunder. If the plan was to bait the Ruskies into bloody urban warfare, it has obviously failed, as so far the Russians have been content to sit back with their beloved artillery and just play whack a mole with Ukranian defensive positions. I wonder if Zelensky was delusional enough to believe that real boots on the ground help was coming from the west? Forcing a siege makes sense if you have available reinforcements to swing around and flank the besiegers, but without that, you've essentially fucked yourself. Any kind of sortie would just be suicide, and being cut off from supplies means you no longer have any means of countering Russian armor once you've used up all your anti-tank munitions. Was the psychological boost of holding steadfast in Kiev worth the possibility of Zelensky being frog walked into a Russian APC while the rest of the country looks on?
) and I am here to confirm this. Putin will not divide us. He will not divide us! He will not divide us!
