Russia could create a tactical advantage using NATO's stereotypes that russians are incompetent, disorganized, and cowardly

submitted by SudoBreakSandwich from self.WayOfTheBern

Heres a thought.

Make it look like theres a small weak point in your lines that you just happened to "overlook". Make it look like this place would be ideal to launch an attack.

When the "Brave and Noble" Ukrainians attack said position, "obviously" russia will rout and run away. Emboldened by this clear and present victory, the "brave" ukranians break formation to try and run the russians down.

Russia continues to "retreat" until ukraine's troops are thoroughly stretched thin and they've made it to the staging area where more russian troops are hiding. Then Russia surrounds them and ..."ask them nicely" to stop.

( they dont really ask "nicely" )

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[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The Russian do this in Sergei Eisenstein's masterpiece Alexander Nevsky (1938). Here's my annotated Battle on Ice.

[–]SudoBreakSandwich[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And here a bizarely a-historical example because dual wielding sabre's on horseback while horrendously outnumbered makes ZERO sense unless its a suicide mission or rule of cool:

https://youtu.be/6SZuFi9htLA?t=183

And almost NONE of the warriors are carrying bows when that was their thing

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Pretty sure Russia is routinely doing all of this.

[–]SudoBreakSandwich[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

good

[–]risistill me 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Sun Tzu Sudo!

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Great! Except that's kinda what already happened in Bakmut and the current offensive.

[–]SudoBreakSandwich[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, Russia's been on the receiving end of this tactic many times so they are probably familiar with it by now.

Mechanics are a little different when you are using machines instead of horses

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The stereotypes are particularly amusing since they were actually true not too long ago, and are the farthest thing from the truth now.

During Obama's presidency, it was estimated that the Russian forces could last 3-4 days in the field before catastrophic armor and equipment breakdowns began, and there was no industrial capacity to produce a supply of spare parts. Putin's wise elevation of logistics officers to the upper echelons has radically changed that, as we can all see.

All other considerations aside - humanitarian, political, strategic, diplomatic, financial, etc - from a purely military perspective, this war has been a blessing for Russia.

Ukraine isn't a country. It's a whetstone.

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We seriously just had an article that laid that out.

Ukraine didn't recognize Russia as sovereign and broke that April 1, 2019.

Russia remembered. All this anger and hostility just keeps ignoring reality and all you can do is watch a reality asserts itself.

In regards to Russia restarting its military, that happened the minute they saw that coup.

They had 8 years to prepare. They did not waste a single second.

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You might call it a "cauldron"

And just slowly cook the enemy in the kill zone