• coolusername@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    They do. They have air superiority and really much more of everything including morale

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      5 months ago

      We also know:

      1. Ukraine has been getting slowly pushed back
      2. Ukraine’s counteroffensive failed

      Abandoning a position because you can’t hold it usually involves lots of deaths. Similarly, moving on a position but getting pushed back seems like it would aldo be pretty costly.

      I’m skeptical of 10:1, but I’m also skeptical of 1:1.