It would be cool if this really was a Ukraine trap, and could represent increasing battlefield success, but we just don’t have enough evidence to know. It possibly was just an opportunistic win with no devious forethought. Nice either way…
Russia always probes the entire front if a weaknesss is found they reinforce there…more likely it was just a preplanned way of ukraine how to act when it happens,they didnt lay a trap.
A trap is by design. Russia found a hole in the front, got overextended and pummeled. Kudos to Ukraine but it wasn’t by design.
Just acting like a obvious defeat/failure is good because it was somehow part of some secret plan from the beginning is not helpful at all. It just prevents the Ukrainians from learning from mistakes.
This is exactly the kind of thing russians did all the time.
I just have difficulties believing Ukraine would set such a trap at the propably most inopportune time possible (the Alaska meeting between Russia and the USA). There might be a chance Ukraine thought that trap would have been sprung before the meeting started, but it seems way more likely Ukraine managed to cut off a genuine breakthrough.
Making the best of a bad situation…
Here’s the deal. The Crimean penninsula is valuable because of the costline and the oil deposits in the water around it.
It’s also a perfect trap to sink an adversary’s resources into. It’s indefensible. It has one source of water, that comes from the north side, unfortunately for Russia. It’s been destroyed after the 2014 attack, and only restored in the last few years. It’s forever a liability. It’s always an opportunity for Ukraine (or anyone*) to exploit by sabotaging Russia’s oil extraction efforts, or any of their vessels.
* about this. Keep in mind the obvious: Russia designed this war on the idea that it would be an easy take. They felt this way for various reasons, mostly past successes. However, this was wrong. And for that hope that they’d be able to exploit Crimea’s resources, it was based on the idea that they wouldn’t be surrounded by enemies.
3 years in, Russia’s doing OK. For comparison, the Soviets lasted 9 years in Afghanistan. I don’t think modern Russia, driven by resources and very specific motives from oligargh corruption, can last 6 more years doing this. Their strength is oil, and their huge but boarderline-ancient military.
Spin after the fact, this. We don’t need spin, guys.
If this were true, Ukraine wouldn’t have needed to deploy their reserves.
That seems like a high-risk low-reward trap. Killing A couple hundred soldiers in exchange for a potential breach of your defensive lines? That’s not a good strategy
What a bullshit video. It’s like the saying that Ruzzia set up a trap last year in Kursk when Ukraine penetrated around 20-30 km.
Ruzzians do this all the time untill they find a gap to exploit. I guess that Kupiansk is also a trap since the situation is getting crticial and Ukraine has to again send reserves to save the situation. The risk of encirclement seems real.
I’ve watched couple of videos from this channel – most of them, if not all, simply prey on people that want to hear some positive news from the war (positive meaning in Ukraine’s advantage). While I’m definitely one of those people, spreading misinformation and false hope is a pathetic excuse for content.
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It would be cool if this really was a Ukraine trap, and could represent increasing battlefield success, but we just don’t have enough evidence to know. It possibly was just an opportunistic win with no devious forethought. Nice either way…
Russia always probes the entire front if a weaknesss is found they reinforce there…more likely it was just a preplanned way of ukraine how to act when it happens,they didnt lay a trap.
A trap is by design. Russia found a hole in the front, got overextended and pummeled. Kudos to Ukraine but it wasn’t by design.
Just acting like a obvious defeat/failure is good because it was somehow part of some secret plan from the beginning is not helpful at all. It just prevents the Ukrainians from learning from mistakes.
This is exactly the kind of thing russians did all the time.
I just have difficulties believing Ukraine would set such a trap at the propably most inopportune time possible (the Alaska meeting between Russia and the USA). There might be a chance Ukraine thought that trap would have been sprung before the meeting started, but it seems way more likely Ukraine managed to cut off a genuine breakthrough.
Making the best of a bad situation…
Here’s the deal. The Crimean penninsula is valuable because of the costline and the oil deposits in the water around it.
It’s also a perfect trap to sink an adversary’s resources into. It’s indefensible. It has one source of water, that comes from the north side, unfortunately for Russia. It’s been destroyed after the 2014 attack, and only restored in the last few years. It’s forever a liability. It’s always an opportunity for Ukraine (or anyone*) to exploit by sabotaging Russia’s oil extraction efforts, or any of their vessels.
* about this. Keep in mind the obvious: Russia designed this war on the idea that it would be an easy take. They felt this way for various reasons, mostly past successes. However, this was wrong. And for that hope that they’d be able to exploit Crimea’s resources, it was based on the idea that they wouldn’t be surrounded by enemies.
3 years in, Russia’s doing OK. For comparison, the Soviets lasted 9 years in Afghanistan. I don’t think modern Russia, driven by resources and very specific motives from oligargh corruption, can last 6 more years doing this. Their strength is oil, and their huge but boarderline-ancient military.
Spin after the fact, this. We don’t need spin, guys.
If this were true, Ukraine wouldn’t have needed to deploy their reserves.
That seems like a high-risk low-reward trap. Killing A couple hundred soldiers in exchange for a potential breach of your defensive lines? That’s not a good strategy
What a bullshit video. It’s like the saying that Ruzzia set up a trap last year in Kursk when Ukraine penetrated around 20-30 km.
Ruzzians do this all the time untill they find a gap to exploit. I guess that Kupiansk is also a trap since the situation is getting crticial and Ukraine has to again send reserves to save the situation. The risk of encirclement seems real.
I’ve watched couple of videos from this channel – most of them, if not all, simply prey on people that want to hear some positive news from the war (positive meaning in Ukraine’s advantage). While I’m definitely one of those people, spreading misinformation and false hope is a pathetic excuse for content.
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