They have a lot more soldiers, why don't they just blitzkrieg them

>>507320530 (OP)
because its an SMO

>>507320530 (OP)
>blitzkrieg
Isn’t a military tactic.

That would make their supply lines longer, instead they force Ukraine to have the longest supply lines, dumbass nigger.

>>507320530 (OP)
Jews

>>507320530 (OP)
>They have a lot more soldiers
that's the thing, they don't
they cucked out of full mobilization and now ukrainians outnumber them
they literally had the same numbers as bosnian serbs did in 1995, but stretched over ten times the territory
it's fucking ridiculous

They ran out of trucks a year ago the contested areas are pretty much the distance a soldier can walk from the border

>>507320984
why didn't they do it at the beginning

>>507320530 (OP)
because most of the frontline is highly entrenched. It makes more sense to do a slow and steady offensive around the weakest areas to minimize equipment loses.
Blitzkrieg in and of itself is retarded anyways it's why the nazis largely abandoned it after 1942, it simply causes too much damage to your units because they don't have time to recover and leaves you vulnerable to encirclements. Ukraine tries massive counteroffensives all the time and they all turn to shit cause they burn out quickly from slamming themselves into fortified positions.
Russia will only ever do a blitz if there's a fatass opening like right now in Komar. Currently the layers of fortifications are nearing their end and ukraine can't build them fast enough (or at all really, lack of workers and constant bombing) so a massive offensive will come but it'll take some time so I don't expect it all the way this summer.

>>507320623
Can't they just supe up their vehicles with wood gas ?

>>507320530 (OP)
Because you cant rush through fortified positions and expect to come out with enough force to continue pushing. Concentrated artillery kill zone, minefields, trenches, drones etc. No matter how much manpower Russia has, so long as Ukraine continues fortifying and has the munitions to fuck up any advance, Russia cannot win.

>>507320530 (OP)
they met their strategic goals a long time ago and are happy to sit it out, ukies are poorly trained and using expensive equipment so this works as both training to modernize Russias military and a resource sink for nato

>>507321213
What's fucking up Ukraine is that the high command refuses to let their soldiers retreat from very obvious future encirclements like in Toretsk so they waste a massive amount of resources. Instead of giving up land to get into a better position they let themselves get encircled for sake of retarded counteroffensives and last stands.

>>507321143
>Blitzkrieg in and of itself is retarded anyways
Not really, it's just highly dependent on being able to knock out the enemy's ability to fight asap through maneuver warfare, which is why it worked extremely well in places like France (luck with the Allies collectively eating glue aside), and shat itself in Russia.
Theoretically it would've worked if the Russians had engaged in it at the start of the war, but unfortunately, they decided to beeline for Kiev (no I'm not going to use the "keeev" name that's fucking gay) instead of focusing on destroying the Ukrainian army's ability to fight.

>>507320795
>Ukrainians outnumber them
But Ukraine ran out of manpower in winter 2024 though

>>507321356
It's because they know they can't retake the ground.

>>507320530 (OP)
Ya know when you’re gf says push more but there’s no more to push???
Yeah

>>507321356
it's not retarded though, put a man against a wall and he'll fight harder
people need to realize that our enemies and opponents both foreign and domestic are not stupid, they're evil

>>507321421
Regardless Russia would've been met with a lot of pushback from the hohols because of western aid, if anything damaging the Ukrainian army more heavily would've just made Ukraine get more aid (meaning better equipment because whatever they made for their army before was ASS)
also based it's Kiev not Kyiv

>>507320530 (OP)
their job isn't to conquer khazria, its to ethnically cleanse it, in return for 2014s gift of crimea, and a landbridge leading to it

>>507321605
thats why the west eaglerly attacks a nuclear armed state through proxies, because they know it isn't a real war and there won't be real consequences.

>>507321685
What eating glue does to mf'er smddh (shaking my damn dick head).

What a shame. His brown IQ never stood a chance.

>>507320530 (OP)
I know fuck all about war, but I’ve always wondered why it’s so hard to project power.
>retreat to save resources
>produce 30 million missiles
>hit every target that could potentially cause trouble, all at once
>repeat 3X
>stroll in with a few million soldiers
I’m exaggerating, but you know what I mean. Why match their force if you can exceed it, especially from a distance?

>>507322104
Missiles are expensive, russia can make like 6 of all types per day total iirc and firing a lot at once is hard.
>stroll in with a few million soldiers
the world isn't hoi4 mobilizing people to fight in a war is hard and that would be a logistical pain in the ass

>>507320605
They tried that in the famous first two weeks. They got their shit pushed in and we've been here ever since.

>>507322104
Modern warfare is restrained thats why, theres a lot of fear from repercussions with your people and the international community. You can hardly mobilize millions to conduct an all out war.

>>507320530 (OP)
they blyatzkrieg them in small units on foot or motorcycle everyday, that's why you get 1100 injured or killed daily

>>507321559
Its pointless tho when you have your experienced troops wiped out. Doesnt really matter how hard they would fight when drones can take them out without ever having to see anyone on the opposing side.

>>507320530 (OP)
Because unlike constant westoid propaganda Russians don't practice meat wave attacks and care about conserving their manpower. The cattle on both sides will just rot there until one side loses

>>507322565
I guess I overestimated them. They should do better, but I realized it would be nearly impossible to stage that without the other side targeting it.
>>507322884
I get it. It’s just bizarre seeing such a big country drip feeding resources

>>507322104
Humans are resilient. Just because you bomb your enemy to shit doesn't mean you manage to destroy everything and that they can't rebuild. Russia doesn't have the capability to bomb Ukraine to shit anyway, it's a big country, supported by west which is superior to Russia.

The oblasts they took are the ones with the Russian-speaking majority. Those are the ones they will hold on to. They do not want to occupy the other areas, because it would be impossible. Lesson learned from Afghanistan.
What you're looking at there is the map they want. They will just hold it like that.

>>507321356
Toretsk was about to fall in two weeks last December.

>>507323292
>muscovy
>caring about conserving their manpower
Lol

Lmao even

both sides keep rolling less than 6 on the momentum dice at the start of each turn...

>>507321356
What parte of "to the last Ukrainian" you didn't get

>>507323483
If you analyze beyond just believing propaganda then yes. Not that they care about the people, but they need the tools

>>507320530 (OP)
Satellite surveillance and drone warfare means concentrating any force sufficient to break through the enemy lines is suicidal. Modern artillery, modern mines, missiles, loitering munitions, and drones have extended "No Man's Land" from hundreds of yards into dozens of miles. Mounting attacks is worse than WW1.

>>507322104
America tried this in Iraq and then lost more soldiers to shitty IEDs during the occupation than during the actual fighting.
It's pointless as an strategy and serves only to enrich shareholders.

>>507323932
What government cares about people?

>>507320530 (OP)
>Why don't they just push more?
they dying bro

>>507320530 (OP)
A fortified million of men are holding them back simple as that, and Ukrainians has always been fierce fighters they got most of what’s beyond Ural Mountains for Russia they know how to fight>>507320595

>>507324511
>pic
the history of christianity in europe

>>507321339
and most importantly of all, actually the only real goal, a perpetual white goyim meatgrinder

>>507322700
dumbfuck americans
they retreated because the ukranians signed a peace deal in istanbul

>>507321339
>they met their strategic goals a long time ago and are happy to sit it out
said no stratagos in human history ever

>>507320623
>Long supply lines
They're barely out of Donetsk. You are delusional.

>>507324794
>We retreated because we uh signed a peace treaty not because we invaded with too few men
It was a strategic blunder, western intellegence agencies was saying the frontlines were going to collapse near Kyiv for weeks and then they fell back a week later alsmot like it happened.
Russians cope with the "treaty" bullshit, but the reality is it's just cope they made up to feel strong

>>507321143
>minimize equipment losses
They've lost most of their tanks doing retard solo patrols and testing defenses rather than do what you are supposed to do with them, which is massing and a breakthrough

>>507320530 (OP)
Ukrainians are in range of their artillery from current positions, why move when they are killing them just as well from where they stand? Enemy loses when it runs out of soldiers, not when arbitrary % of the map has been painted online.

>>507325060
They lost hostomel and the runway got smashed too badly to perfom an airlift. Ukrainians knew what they were trying to do because all the ukrainian brass literally served in the russian military and know their doctrine front to back.

>>507320530 (OP)
They already went all-in. They can't do more.

>>507325060
>western intellegence agencies was saying the frontlines were going to collapse near Kyiv for weeks and then they fell back a week later alsmot like it happened.
the northern force is also the one that contained all the green russian units, they never stood a chance as a whole because of being unprepared for actual combat

>>507325060
I think the point was to close the war fast with a treaty but they were also ready to fight a conventional war too. Hence why they captured the land bridge between Donbas and Crimea.
It's highly unlikely that they actually expected to capture Kiev during phase 1.

>>507320530 (OP)
Do you even know what a blitzkrieg is you fucking moron? You think having a massive lumbering horde of infantry is anything like a blitzkrieg assault?

>>507320530 (OP)
The Russian military is nigger tier.

>>507325701
>horde of infantry
russians cannot afford that, they have a low density infantry cloud instead, more like infantry mist, really

>blitzkrieg
>but your only armour is LADAs and donkeys
Nah nigga, that's called a blyatskrieg.

>>507320530 (OP)
Because the russian propaganda about how strong russia is is fake you fucking retarded mutt

>>507320530 (OP)
Pussass touchy feels warfare. They should take everything up to that river next to Kyiv, yesterday, and be done with it.

>>507324901
moron you think Ukraine is making their supplies?
Lol YOU are

>>507325905
>blyatskrieg
God I want the footage of that.

>>507320530 (OP)
>They have a lot more soldiers, why don't they just blitzkrieg them
They tried it already, the main outcome was them now having a lot less soldiers and everything else as well.

>>507321117
They invaded with essentially their entire standing military, within 3 months they had called up all their proper reserves as well

>>507320530 (OP)
you always keep a reserve force.
and putin is probably worried about a full-scale NATO invasion (unlikely, but its always a risk) if he commits his entire force.
also one tactical nuke would wipe them all out, then russia is FUCKED.
plus he needs to keep a few soldiers around in case someone tries to do a coop

>>507320530 (OP)
Attritional warfare is quintessentially Russian.

>>507320530 (OP)

They are nonstop leveling the encircled cities. Artillery is the king

>>507320530 (OP)
Remember what happened in Korea? All the way to the Yalu river!
>Except the Yalu river has several million chinks crossing the river barefoot in winter with one gun for every 3 men who pushe the UN back to the 49th parallel.

This is what happens when an army with a vocally hostile ideology approaches your borders.