Ukrainian army spokesman said Moscow has pulled out “relatively small” number of troops to bolster Kursk against incursion.
  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Hopefully the Ukrainian military thought this all through in advance and had a good idea of where those reinforcements will come from, and have some surprises in store for them.

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      To armchair general for a bit- they send out small, fast, agile squads in all directions that make a show of fighting then rapidly retreat. The enemy follows into dug in positions and a sky full of drones. Repeat until you’ve put enough of a dent into the enemy then massively counterattack the direction most of the enemy is coming from.

      • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Why counter attack (with the majority of forces) right away? Russians have shown poorer abilities when organizing offensives compared to defending. The incursion into Russia by Ukraine forces the Russian military into attacking. This is as opposed to sitting behind a thousand minefields in unmoving lines inside Ukraine.

        Ukraine can set up elaborate layered defenses and enjoy the defensive advantage to grind up more Russian military assets. This also gives Ukraine opportunities for small detachments to hit the Russian reinforcements on the move, which is something they’ve already been doing.

        • Adderbox76@lemmy.caEnglish
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          3 months ago

          If I read it correctly, Ukraine is facing a very large force to the north and struggling to repel it. If you open up another front, you force Putin to hopefully take troops from there to use on the defence in Kursk, thereby lessening the load on the soldiers defending in the North.

          • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Peeling off Russian forces is exactly what Ukraine has already done with this force. I believe it was entirely the point.

            Russia is forced not to ignore this for numerous reasons, and it forces them to attack to expel the Ukrainian forces. Successfully attacking with conscripts is a more difficult proposition than defending.

            Ukrainian forces inside Russia can continue to force the confrontation by advancing into undefended territory and/or launching limited small scale attacks to be a constant wound inside of Russia. Ukrainians have already been conducting these attacks on reinforcements on their way to stop the main Ukrainian forces.

            All the while Ukrainians inside Russia can refuse to assault defended positions. Which is exactly what they did initially. They bypassed the heavy positions and refused to engage in heavy force on force assaults. Instead as local defenders they are creating a lopsided local situation.

            As an aside, where are Russian air assets? Inside Ukraine the skies were contested, but the apparent inability of air assets to repel Ukrainians from Russian territory with air power is not a good sign for Russia.

            • monomon@programming.devEnglish
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              3 months ago

              From what I read, the incursion force brought AA, making it hard for Russian air. Moreover, they did strike a few nearby airfields.

              • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                3 months ago

                I assumed naturally they did bring AA, but the fact that AA of a force on the move is able to apparently overcome the ability of Russia to deploy air power in any significant way on its home turf is really something.

    • Five@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Why is Lemmy.“World” applying a US-Centric political spectrum to international news?

  • 432@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Putin needs to find Jesus. He needs to read scripture.

    EDIT: This seems like just another online liberal echo chamber! What a joke!

        • Metype @lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          You appear to be speaking nonsense words, they all have meaning and some groupings in your comment do too. In its entirety though this comment makes no sense. An echo chamber is a place that many individuals may go to reinforce their views, with other members backing them up and attempting to remove any naysayers or disagreement.

          A comment cannot, by definition, be an echo chamber.

          Edit: What I find most odd is that your other comments seem to be very sensical. I generally agree with what you have to say, so this is a very strange thing to see you commenting.

          • andrewth09@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            so this is a very strange thing to see you commenting.

            It’s because I didn’t include the “/s” at the end of the comment.

            432 is definitely a troll/bot account. He calls a lot of comment sections a liberal echo chamber.

            • Metype @lemmy.worldEnglish
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              3 months ago

              That makes so much more sense lmao. I’m definitely guilty of being bad at spotting satire in text.

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      What does any of this have to do with the article? You’re being down voted for making a weird comment about Jesus, nothing to do with being liberal.

    • Rinox@feddit.itEnglish
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      3 months ago

      He did find Jesus and then realized it to be a bit problematic that he couldn’t fully control it, so he put his KGB friend at the head of the Russian Orthodoxy so now Jesus says what Putin wants him to say

    • Whelks_chance@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Another one? Is it common for people to find it annoying when you suggest religion is somehow a solution for things?

    • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      This is a liberal echo chamber but reddit fucked me off.

      Anything more neutral? Something with a sense of humour. This are some of the most boring fucks I’ve ever met on the internet. They all got their panties in a twist on their high horse.

      But I am left leaning so I don’t want a right wing echo chamber I just want free speech and banter.

      • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        There are some “free speech” focused instances of different Activity Pub based platforms. You all can go there. I don’t remember the names of them but I’m sure some other Lemmy user can help you with that.

    • sir_pronoun@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I find it ridiculous how downvoted you got. Of all the major religions Christianity is the one that went through the greatest processes of self-reflection and criticism and while I find most of its institutions still very flawed, it offers a lot of deep and compassionate thought and traditions. Also it actually has excellent philosophers and thinkers that integrate a scientific world view in theirs.

      Lemmy is very ridiculous in this regard. People have intense opinions on things they have no deep understanding of. It’s like how MAGA people react to things like gun control or vaccines. They preach tolerance of some things and not others.

      The thought of Putin finding Jesus could have led to a funny and weird conversation, and yet you were just met with hate. It’s so sad.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Of all the major religions Christianity is the one that went through the greatest processes of self-reflection and criticism

        When did this happen? Because I still see a lot of self-righteous hate and bigotry from Christians all over the world.

        • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Coming from a country - Portugal - which was very Catholic not that long ago, I would say that the children of Catholic parents went through a great process of “self-reflection and criticism” and dropped Catholicism.

          The religion itself is pretty much as backwards as ever.

          What happened is that the number of actual practicing Catholics (you know, people who actually go to church and spend time thinking about that stuff) has fallen steeply, even if there are still many who just because they got baptized (which is something one has no choice on), get counted as religious.

          Even with the Christian sects dominant in places like the US and Brazil trying to get a foothold over here, there’s nowhere the level of dominance of religion in public life there seems to be in the US. It’s funny that a country which maybe 50 or 60 years ago was, IMHO, very socially backwards compared to the US, is now more socially evolved than it.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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            3 months ago

            It sounds like Christianity didn’t go through self-reflection, it sounds like Christians did and many of them stopped being Christians.

            • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Exactly.

              My kind interpretation of the previous poster’s comment is that he or she may have confused the latter with the former: looked at highly religious places, saw them moving forward in social terms and thought it was the religion moving forward when in fact it was the people dropping the religion and thus moving forward.

        • sir_pronoun@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Ever heard of the age of enlightenment? Holy hell. Also, you can make jokes about Christianity publicly without having to fear for your life. Lots of preachers have problems with their churches and are progressives. What is wrong with you people.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Of all the major religions Christianity is the one that went through the greatest processes of self-reflection and criticism and while I find most of its institutions still very flawed, it offers a lot of deep and compassionate thought and traditions

        Christianity is responsible for the crusades…