The favored Russian tactic now is recon by force across the vast front line, sending small teams to probe Ukrainian dug-in areas. When that team gets obliterated, they send in a larger probe with fresh meat which they force the survivors of the first raid to join. It carries on this way till they all die, which usually happens quickly enough.

Sometimes, though, this tactic gains the Russians a few hundred meters. Maybe one out of ten times. And that’s how the Russians are very slowly and bloodily taking more Ukrainian territory. No casualty evacuations, no retreats. No Russian soldier even attempts to surrender. In fact, many Russian troops commit suicide once they are too injured to walk. Surrender is pointless; once the Russians are exchanged as POWs, they are punished severely and then returned to the front lines for another suicide mission.

The above is what Ian Welsh et alia see as winning. This is why I will never understand Welsh’s and other people’s Putin worship. It is a psychotic way to fight a war. All wars are evil, but the Russian tactics are on another level of moral repugnance. And yes, this is all true. The unedited videos are available for anyone to watch.

Putin worshipers should be forced to go fight for the Russian side. Perhaps they will renounce their clownery if they manage to survive a meat wave or two.