It looks like in the past few days they cooled off with using armor, recently they've been just sending a lot of troops in to storm villages and they managed to capture a few that way. However, now they have to start making their way across open fields again and the whole thing stalled once again. They're still kilometres away from the actual defensive lines.
Basically what's happening is that they're making their way through heavily mined open fields. As they discovered over the past two weeks, this makes it effectively impossible for a large armored assault to happen. Ukraine would send a mine clearing tank and the rest would have to follow in a line since moving to the side means hitting a mine. Russians would disable the first vehicle and then pick off the rest since they have nowhere to go. On top of that, KA-52s can hit these columns from up to 10 km away, and Ukraine doesn't have anything that can hit back. So, all the vehicles are basically sitting ducks.
The new tactic of throwing infantry in first to clear the way saves vehicles, but obviously result in much higher manpower losses. It'll be interesting to see what Ukrainians do in the next few weeks. The pressure from the west to show some results before the NATO meeting in July must be incredible, so they could be forced to use zerg rush tactics.
For sure, and doing that while western media is openly reporting on the offensive really highlights what utter clowns they are. Everybody can see the offensive is happening and that it's a giant failure so far, but they just keep claiming how they're doing probing with their best equipment.
I guess the moral of the story is that US is a fascist state since people like Ford are openly praised 🤣
He's a bit more honest about it, but vast majority of anarchists support NATO to the hilt right now. When push comes to shove anarchists are just liberals LARPing.
My personal experience talking about the EU with people like @[email protected]
Liberals demonstrate incredible amounts of cognitive dissonance. They appear to have deep concerns about the rise of far right in US while at the same time giving their full support to literal fascists in Ukraine. I guess if these people had any shred of integrity they wouldn't liberals in the first place.
That's a great write up, I also really liked this explanation which does a great job explaining the difference between actual socialism which is the transitional state from capitalism to communism and capitalism with a better social safety net as seen in Nordic countries https://archive.ph/WjHjh
Another thing I find hilarious with Anarchists is that many of them are huge EU supporters. Turns out they're totally fine with centralization and large unelected bureaucracies in practice. These people are just LARPing.
those damn Putin puppets are everywhere