Puck had a video a year ago where he evaluated the main arguments that holding Bakhmut was a mistake (in this case, those advanced by Michael Kofman), and ultimately finds them unconvincing:
Poor fuckin kids man, just some 19 year old, probably still lives with Mom and dad. Only experience with a gun is from video games and a few mags from training.
They might not, but I do.
Zelensky and Syrski did say that beyond creating a security buffer the purpose of Ukraines invasion of Russia was to make the war a reality for the Russian people.
Fuckin WHO'S economy is dependent on Russia? You're a fuckin tard, you just say dumb shit you hear on /pol/.
Possession of child pornography is legal in Russia you retarded nigger, so Russia wants to annex the child porn capital of Europe so that the Russian child porn industry can grow, and Ukrainian children can start to see some multipolar diversity in being raped by Muslims and Chinks too?
This genuinely wtf footage. Ive now seen this multiple times where the vehicle dropping off Russians does it with them exposed to enemy fire all the while providing zero fire support themselves.
It’s not important that Ukraine wins. It’s important that Russia loses.
Let them come out of their hugbox and embarrass themselves, the retard calls Ukraine the "CP capital of Europe", while possession of CP is itself legal in Russia, and child sexual exploitation, pornography, and prostitution are all extremely rampant, there is no need for anti-Russian NAFO redditor propaganda, when Russians themselves are open about the fact that they live in a degenerate shithole where even owning child porn is legal.
I posted this two days ago, and look we already have a specimen.
His channel started out before the war as an English speaking Russian trying to give ignorant westerners a tour of his lovely and misunderstood country. When the war started, he did the both sides have a point Schick and tried to toe the national line. When Ukraine routed the Russian Army around Kiev and Kharkiv and Putin ordered the first wave of mobilization he fled to Uzbekistan where he had a business partner/friend that would vouch for him for a visa. According to the story that friend actually made the invitation rather then being asked for it.
I remember back in the middle of Iraq/Afganistan that the US had its own turn at the "Future Soldier" with Dragon Skin body armour that was supposed to be able to stop any conventional round and yadda yadda but nothing ever came of it.
You are such a drama queen. If you don't like your country supporting Ukraine, then vote out the politicians that support them, or stop paying your taxes and see where that gets you. Nothing is going to be solved by wading into a thread full of Ukraine supporters and trying to rile them up, though I'll concede this might be making you feel a little better for a few pathetic minutes.
You should care about the extermination of the Russian people, language, culture, and state.
If he really is a Brit then his post is even more retarded. You know how much of the UKs gas came from Russia before the war? 4 whole percent. Our gas price rises were less a direct result of prolonging the war and more a combination of the companies seeing a chance to gouge us, OFGEM doing literally nothing to stop them, and the Tory leadership being too busy measuring each other's back for a knife to make any preparations the way other countries did.
It would unlikely be Donetsk, as they'd have to push the front back several kilometers before they hit the Surovikin line. More likely it would be a push to the south where they are against the line and might be able to batter their way through. Also if they can get Putin to pull reserves from the south, it'll be a while before they could be returned.
Not just Werner & Chef. What he really lost was Utkin. That paranoid motherfucker actually knew his shit. One can question the humanity of sending a group of prisoners out over noman's land so you can see which group makes it the farthest before getting shot down and then sending your tacticool elite operators to infilitrate in that direction, but as long as you had a bunch of disposable moblik meat to cube they were able to use if very effectively when combined with unsustainable artillery barrages.
At the 'peak' it was at least 1:8 in Ukraine's favor. Once Ukraine was barely able to maintain a corridor for resupply, and their 155 was forced to pull back due to the threats from north and south, that brought the total for the battle to about 1:5.
iirc Dragon skin was cost-prohibitive, production didn't scale (lol), and while it was better than anything else that lgiht and flexible, it wasnt even truly bullet proof.
