Guerre en Ukraine : de la prudence à l'affolement… Ce que cache le virage de Macron
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Quelle mouche a piqué le président au moment d'envisager l'envoi de troupes en Ukraine ? Plusieurs rapports confidentiels défense expliquent « l’affolement » de l’Élysée, où les chefs de partis sont invités ce jeudi 7 mars à évoquer la question. Sur le front, les Russes sont en position de force. Fallait-il pour autant, face à Poutine, brandir une menace intenable ?

Summary

  1. Western planners underestimated Russian moral strength and assumed their defense lines would collapse upon breach.
  2. Ukrainian brigade training was insufficient, too administrative, and short.
  3. Western equipment is considered less efficient than Soviet due to maintenance issues and degraded mode capabilities.
  4. The report emphasizes Russian superiority in defensive tactics with heavy machinery for fortification.
  5. The Russian army is recognized as the technical reference for defensive strategies.
  6. Western press reported Moscow's lack of interest in soldiers' lives, but confidential reports suggest otherwise.
  7. Russians practice "Maskirovka," appearing weak to hide their true strength.
  8. A stampede occurred during the loss of Avdiivka on February 17.
  9. Macron presented other reports to political opponents, challenging Western press's underestimation of Russian capabilities.
  10. Ukrainian general staff lacks a critical mass of ground forces capable of breaking through Russian defensive lines.
  11. The most serious error is seeking exclusively military solutions to end hostilities.
  12. A French officer concludes that Ukraine cannot win the war militarily due to insufficient forces.
  13. Ukrainian soldiers' fighting spirit is affected by ongoing conflict.
  14. Zelensky needs 35,000 men per month but isn't recruiting half of them while Putin draws from a pool of 30,000 volunteers each month.
  15. The Ukrainian failure at Avdiivka demonstrates that Kiev is not capable of re-establishing the collapsing front with an "elite" brigade's dispatch.
  • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Western planners underestimated Russian moral strength

    Well now they have the desired Intel.

    degraded mode capabilities

    What does that mean?

    defensive tactics with heavy machinery for fortification.

    Which is amusing, given the amount of supposed mechanisation yankee military has. Those trench digging excavators, those tractors for filling sandbags, etc.

    Russians practice “Maskirovka,”

    It annoys me perhaps more that it should when foreign press take a normal Russian word and slap it into the text untranslated so it sounds more strange and menacing. Maskirovka just means camouflage, masking, you dolts. "Kompromat" isn't even a Russian word, and "dizinformatsiya" just makes my eyes hurt. Bloody journos.

    Ukrainian general staff lacks a critical mass of ground forces capable of breaking through

    Sounds like a thinly veiled call for NATO boots on the ground. As in, officially and end mass, as opposed to "volunteers".

    most serious error is seeking exclusively military solutions to end hostilities

    Which likely means "must also seek ways to hurt the economy" and terrorism. Not "let's sit down and actually try to communicate".

    French officer concludes that Ukraine cannot win the war militarily due to insufficient forces

    Which again, suggests "non military" solutions - terrorism against infrastructure and various political maneuvering.

    Ukrainian soldiers’ fighting spirit is affected by ongoing conflict.

    No shit, sherlock. Yankee soldiers been shooting children at their leisure for decades, and they still had their "fighting spirit affected". What did you think an actual war would do?

    Kiev is not capable of re-establishing the collapsing front with an “elite” brigade’s dispatch

    Turns out the Hollywood myth about le elite super troopers heroically turning the tide via smol forces is just that - a myth.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      Degraded mode capabilities means that Soviet designed perform better when damaged. And yeah, taking Russian words and using them to make things sound more sinister has been a trend in the west for a while.

      • SwitchyWitchyandBitchy [she/her]
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        9 months ago

        I read it as NATO supplied weapons that have been intentionally supplied with reduced capabilities so that captured equipment doesn't end up revealing as many secrets. But that's based purely on the fact that I know export variants that have been stripped of their most advanced capabilities have been common in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if the old Soviet equipment performs better with battle wear and damage though.

      • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        Well BT is built on the same enormous amount of anticom brainworms. So of course they also use "scary foreign word".

    • huf [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      so wait, ukraine didnt practice opsec, camouflage and misdirection? that's basically what "maskirovka" comes out to, isnt it?

      well there's your problem!