Thread by @secretsqrl123

ok i have had many people contact me about the counter offensive, has it failed, has ukr lost the war, huge losses..
blah, blah, blah...
now stop talking and listen.
there is a plan, sometimes plans change..
ukr is still attacking and russia is still losing ground and taking… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

now can they take a pause... YES
if anyone remembers in 2003 when the us stopped outside baghdad to take a break.... the news was screaming about tanks stuck in the desert and the US losing the war... it was a plan. but the plan worked too well and the tanks needed a break for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

so far the ukr forces have lost maybe...
20 M2A2s
10-15 leopard 2s
2-3 AMX 10s
some max pros
1 hmmwv
and 2-4 M113s
thats about it

ru losses are harder to nail down but somewhere around...
20-40 BMPs
20-40 BTRs
20+ tanks
dozens of trucks
nearly 100 arty guns
5 KA 52s damaged or shot down
with at least 3000 troops killed (at least)
and i bet that number is low

this fight has had russia stripping its forces from other areas to fill in gaps and use entire divisions to try to hold small towns. this leaves other areas not as well defended along the front... and every time ru moves units they get hit.

if you start out with 100 guys and 10 vehicles every time they move up they lose guys to ukr arty... so if you take a force and move them from one area to another every time they loose vehicles and people... so when they DO get into a fight with fresh ukr troops they are no where… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

here is the question for you simple people telling me that ukr has lost big....
how many brads with 100 serial number have been lost?
0
how many with 200? 1. thats brad 250, and the crew lived..
so only 1 company (3rd with the 300s) was hit....
so of the 9 bradley companies only… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

and the brads are being replaced and that company only lost 5 troops.

BUT ok here is my question...
how many strykers have they lost?
CV90s?
leopard 1s?
T55S?
marders?
challengers?
or M1117?
or how many of the more than 400 western supplied T72s have they lost.... few.
even the russians are saying that ukr has over 900 heavy armored vehicles… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

so please STOP telling me that all is lost for ukr, for russia yes... the war can only go one way now...

but dont get pissy if ukr stops and relooks at things and adjusts the battle plan... it happens.

if you dont know military history read up on the battle of caen. it was… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

have faith people, russia is losing over a battalion a day at the front... they cant get the replacements and they are running out of everything.

if anyone has seen the movie "a bridge too far" at the opening one thing is said that is 100% true.....

war takes time.

again… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…