• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Yes. The point is to put an invading force on the defense. Even if Ukraine does not regain a centimeter of land it has a duty and obligation to try.

    This sounds like the kind of cope that Manstein, Model, and Guderian would have said to Hitler, hats in hand, after getting obliterated at the Battle of Kursk.

    In fact I think the Ukrainian generals knew long ago that they were setting themselves up to get Kursk'd. Most of them had served in the Soviet military and there's no way they made it through Soviet officer school without learning the ins and outs of that battle.

    The fact that they ended up going through with it anyway speaks to something unspeakably fucked up going on behind the scenes.