9 months ago
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In a big-picture look at Ukraine's battlefields, we have passed the point where serious observers are expecting any new major military actions from Russia. Russia's position is now primarily defensive, looking to hold what areas it has taken but with no plausible military options for expanding that territory. Time is the enemy of both sides. Ukraine is compelled to make advances to justify large-scale munitions shipments from Europe and America that cannot necessarily last forever. The Russian army started out as a wreck and now is the sloppy remnants of a wreck.
The advantage is with Ukraine. Russia has no chance of replenishing artillery at the rate it's being destroyed, continues to suffer munitions shortages, has somehow managed to build a standing army that still does not know how to use defensive lines, and is reeling from what can only be described as a "practice coup" by a private army.
