This is not “pummeling”.
Less than 1700 missiles fired into A country the size of Ukraine is 2 months is not “pummeling”
Russia is mostly relying on highly inaccurate artillery and rockets. Both sides are just mass firing into an area hoping they hit something. You can see footage of fields covered in postmarks for km’s. If this was Syria it would be understandable, but for Russia that fields one of the biggest and most sophisticated air forces in the world it’s underwhelming.
The pummeling is being done by way of infantry eliminating Ukrainian personnel, with artillery and more. Perhaps US carpet-bombing tactics should cease being perceived as the sole conceivable ones, and as the be all and end all of warfighting.
I think the issue here isn’t Russian underperformance against expectations it’s the Degree of Russia underperformance against expectations.
I will be honest, it shocked me. I had read reports about the poor state of Russian armed forces outside of the VDV, Chechens, and Spetnaz, and other SOF. But again it was easy to dismiss them as Western propaganda.
Ar the end of the dauy, the important question that matters is about NATO's inability to empower its proxies against the Russian juggernaut.
I knew Russian armed forces weren’t as vaunted as people thought....I saw them in Syria. During the pilot rescue attempt when Turkey shot down SU-22....during multiple UAV raids on its airbase by Wahabbi terrorist. Who can forget the rocket attacks that caused some embarrassment? Who can forget the Russian general that steps on IED after walking around it the first time?
Anecdotal tidbits of uncertain factual accuracy cited out of context, and treated as "proof" for a far reaching general conclusion. A recurrent yet flawed method.
120BTGs have been reduced to about 80BTGs give or take. That might be enough to take southeastern Ukraine, but not all of Ukraine and doubtful even Kiev with such a force.
More speculation and NATO narratives passed off as hard facts.
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@Stryker1982 corrextly said the longer the war goes on the more BTGs Ukraine can maintain and the less than less Russia will have. This is what happens when one force can do general mobilization and the other side is hamstrung by domestic politics (Russia). This is what hamstrung US in Afghansitsn and Iraq from increasing troop counts and maintaining them. In case of Iran-Iraq war both sides could do general mobilization.
Russia is hamstrung by domestic politics, with a government approval rate of approximately 85%?
This military operation could only be successful under 2 conditions:
1) Russia completely blitzkreigs Ukraine and Ukraine folds faster than lawn chair
2) Russian forces were vastly more skilled to Ukraine soldiers at a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio.
You have to remember Iran raised a 10M army and Saddam countered that by raising a less than 2M man army. But even with that many troops, without western and Arab aid Saddam wouldn’t be able to hold back the Iranian Shiite Wave.
Iranian Shiite wave? However Iran never viewed her mobilization effort as an exclusively Shiite one but rather as an pan-Islamic endeavour.
Differences between the Sacred Defence and the ongoing war in Ukraine are numerous.
Last but not least, with a nearly 3,5 to 1 difference in total populations Russia dwarfs Ukraine in terms of manpower.
Thus US and West stepped in to make sure Iran couldn’t utilize its numbers to overrun Iraq and the Middle East. Iran also helped by doing very archaic human wave attacks and other nonsensical strategies.
In Ukraine, it’s a much much much smaller example in reverse. Ukraine can maintain enough BTGs thru mobilization and volunteer while Russia without general mobilization cannot hope to match it.
Thus the war in Ukraine may be over sooner than people think. Either Russia captures Southern Ukraine and negotiates or the frontlines freeze more or less where they are and a ceasefire is agreed.
It all comes down to the Donbass offensive.
Any of these scenarii will represent a strategic defeat for the west.
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"Unfortunately, some extremist forces are embarking on racial and ethnic disparities in Afghanistan for their own narrow political objectives," Iran's U.N. mission told Newsweek.
www.newsweek.com
Just your “misunderstood” and “brainwashed” Sunni
killing more Shiites in Afghanistan this time a mosque, attack before a high school full of kids.
Don’t worry guys all these Shiites dying in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq. It’s okay, the Sunnis didn’t mean it, they were just misunderstood.
We await confirmation of this poor Sunni soul from our neighborhood Sunni apologist
@SalarHaqq to tell us more about these innocent attackers.
This is the “religion” that the Baboon Arabians and their fellow regional ape species preach in their mosques.
It would seem the quoted user still hasn't got it, so let me set it straight: I'm no "apologist" for Sunnis for there's nothing much to apologize about our brothers from Ahle Sonnat. No, I am rather a staunch proactive
defender of Sunni Moslems, and proudly so. My love for Sunni Moslems is equalled only by my abhorrence for takfiris.
Every Shia should adopt this view, much like every Sunni ought to stand up for their Shia brothers in Islam. This is what Islam teaches us, to spare no efforts in countering fitna, especially when it is fueled by enemies of Islamic peoples and nations.
I wonder why I, the supposed "Sunni apologist", have received a death threat from an anti-Shia sectarianist on this forum and why I've become the object of that sectarianist's obsession, whilst these sectarianists are hardly ever bothering the quoted user, user who tries to assume the role of a champion of the Shia cause?
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By the way, here's another so-called "Sunni apologist from our neighborhood" (to cite the wording of the quoted user):
Imam Khomeini on Islamic Unity
https://www.al-islam.org/articles/imam-khomeini-islamic-unity-sayyid-ruhullah-musawi-khomeini
Jun 4, 2021, 10:55 AM
https://en.irna.ir/news/84354756/Imam-Khomeini-s-view-on-Islamic-Unity-need-of-hour-Iran-envoy
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And here's yet another, addressing both Shia and Sunni ulema:
Publish Date: 24 October 2021
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei highlighted the importance of the unity of Muslims, describing Muslim unity as a "definite duty and a Qur'anic order".
https://www.shora-gc.ir/en/news/133...ealization-of-new-islamic-civilization-leader
Unity: A requirement for the Islamic community
The issue of Islamic unity has always been one of the concerns of Imam Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution. This is evident both in his statements and his actions to the extent that he almost always mentions unity when addressing the Islamic community. The present Op-Ed attempts to explain his position and viewpoint in this regard by examining his statements about Islamic unity.
The issue of Islamic unity has always been one of the concerns of Imam Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution. This is evident both in his statements and actions to the extent that he almost always mentions unity when addressing the Islamic nation. The following article attempts to...
english.khamenei.ir
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I'd say it's high time to grasp the crucial difference between regular Sunni Islam and takfiri ideology.
And to wake up to the fact that one of the main pillars of zionist strategy has been the attempted stoking of sectarianist strife between Moslems. The false portrayal of essentially political conflicts or anti-terrorist operations as sectarianist ones. The pitting of communities against one another.
Hence why you'll never hear anti-Sunni drivel from an official of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hence why Islamic Iran has never engaged in sectarianist policies - contrary to what sectarianists accuse her of, but on the contrary has rushed to assist her Sunni brothers wherever possible (Palestine, Afghanistan, Sudan, Bosnia, Kurdish region of Iraq, Sunni brigadres of the Iraqi PMU, local Sunni allies of Yemen's Ansarallah, Sunni units in the Syrian armed forces, you name it).
The quoted user is uncritically accepting the NATO line with regards to Ukraine, and even baseless zionist- and British-sponsored readings of West Asian conflicts, of "I"SIS and so on, and thereby following in the footsteps of the Shirazi clan, who apart from attacking Sunnis are spending their time attacking the Supreme Leader, seyyed Nasrallah and so on.
The user seems irked not just by the prospect of deeper cooperation between Iran, Russia and China, but also by the notion of solidarity between Shia and Sunni Muslims.
How much more off tracks can one's rants get?
