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Originally Posted by Dargo
If you make that kinda assumptions, you have to provide the real "source" not what is printed in the media. Nobody, you or me can know what is or not is lost and this oh Ukraine cannot... They planned, intergraded all those systems (that some have said ohhh that they never could do it is too complex) into their army with a good result and faster than we could do. Planning an offensive is no sandkasten spielen they have war gamed this before. Plans can go wrong, sure, but you still underestimate Ukraine because you do not have all the data. Russia is scraping the barrels, and you still have a costs-versus-gains ratio that is based on media sources, if the Russian publishes what they really have or lose they are notorious liars for centuries.
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Your sources - media - are not better than mine. The media refer to bloggers. If war bloggers from both sides agree, that gets my raised eyebrow. You are sceptical of people like Reisner, ignoring how very often he was right. I do not listen to people like Hodgson anymore, and many others, because they were always wrong in tbe first 18 months or so - and they disappeared from the media, almost. Rightly so.