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  1. 4 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    It seems like Ukraine has realized that Russia has some marginal competence in defending fortified positions or in attacking fixed locations, but absolutely sucks when you make things more active and maneuver based. Keep attacking where Russia isn't ready. Get behind supply lines and fortifications. Russia's clumsy response will inevitably give you juicy targets like columns of troops. The shortest path to freeing the rest of Ukraine goes through Russia. 

    If the Ukrainians can keep marginalizing Russian air power, the Russians at current seem to have absolutely no answer for this, none.  Honestly, without minefields, they are absolute shit, but hey, if you can force them to mine their own country, that's less mines in Ukraine.  

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  2. 4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Russia: 2nd best army in Ukraine, 2nd best army in Russia.

    And I imagine those Russian troops may not be too keen on fighting them since those troops may not be their best-equipped or trained - it's like when my grandpa handed a 11 year-old me a rifle and told me to go deal with a badger he saw near one of my grandma's gardens.

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    Well, you can also combine all that with the fact that leadership has apparently learned absolutely nothing by fighting in Ukraine.  "Hey guys, lets all stage up together, with all our gear, equipment, and shit, in a nice orderly line.  Make sure we do it on a highway, very visible to everyone as a show of force.  Make sure we get as close to each other as possible, and lets do this in broad daylight!"  

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  3. 6 minutes ago, dimyh said:

    Everyone has been providing some interesting theories but I still don't know the long term objectives in Kursk. What I do know is that any use of maneuverability is going to favor the Ukrainians. They have consistently shown the ability to target the tail of the enemy, taking out logistics, etc. If this is just a temporary push to force Russian troops to redeploy then that is just extra opportunities for the Ukes to use their better coordination, better tech, better intel, to pick apart the enemy reinforcements. Plus this has been proven to be a golden opportunity to nab a good number of prisoners and some headlines just over a couple of days.

    Still I do have my concerns about being able to hold ground long-term. Especially if Russia can do some damage with their glide bombs from a distance. I know that may force them to target their own buildings and infrastructure but they really don't give a shit about their own citizens. I am just worried about losing too many Ukrainian men and equipment if the area does not have any good defensive features. Ultimately this is still an attritional war and the primary strategic objective has not changed: dislodging the Russians from Ukrainian territory. Will this offensive help in that regard? Still not sure but god bless these guys for taking a chance to kick Putin in the nads for all the world to see.

     

    I don't know if this is sustainable at all, but an interesting thing I did see was heavy equipment rolling in.  (i.e. equipment for digging entrenchments).  As to whether or not this was accurate to the time and location, I have no idea.  However, if that was indeed accurate, it at least gives the appearance that the Ukrainians have every intention of digging in at some point.  If anything has been proven thus far, it's that taking territory is incredible difficult, for either side in this.  To that line of thought, if you've managed to take territory, it serves you well to defend it and attempt to keep it.  

  4. 3 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    No. Those towns are 70+ miles from Kursk. 

    Lyubimovka is right near the Sumy border so absolutely correct.  Interestingly, Novio, not gonna work here anymore, pops up for me on Google maps about 10 miles south, southwest of Kursk.  

    Interestingly, the ISW had Miliutino mentioned about 10 miles southwest of there.  

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  5. 50 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

    Kursk.   May it fall as quickly as its namesake submarine.  

    It's difficult to tell because some of the different spellings, (Ukrainian vs Russian) but if below is correct, if I'm reading the map correctly, they are only about 10 miles from Kursk as of several hours ago.

     

     

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  6. 1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    Isn't Bezos/Blue Origin focused more on "space tourism" than actual space flight?

    "Space Tourism" meaning "lets take rich people up to a height of 62 miles, or whatever is considered the edge of space, and let them experience free fall for a few minutes and call that 'space flight'"?

    No, they aren't they are involved with contracts with Artemis, and it's been a while since I've read up on it, but while the new Shephard rocket is tourism, it's next iteration is the new Glenn, designed to directly compete with Space X's dragon.  

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