Comments on: When manoeuvre meets MOSSMOUSE https://didacticmind.com/2022/12/when-manoeuvre-meets-mossmouse.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:48:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Didact https://didacticmind.com/2022/12/when-manoeuvre-meets-mossmouse.html#comment-7658 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 11:12:16 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=17114#comment-7658 In reply to Bootstrapper.

Oh I agree entirely, it will not be a swift victory. Nor do the Russians actually WANT a swift victory, at least, not at the top leadership level. The reason why is straightforward – the Russians recognise that attrition and annihilation are their strengths, and they understand that wearing down the USSA is to their great advantage. They know the USSA lacks strategic depth, whereas Russia can escalate at its leisure. This grinding approach to war suits Russia very well, not least because the Russian leadership – if not necessarily the people – are highly sensitive to casualties.

]]> By: Bootstrapper https://didacticmind.com/2022/12/when-manoeuvre-meets-mossmouse.html#comment-7657 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:55:31 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=17114#comment-7657 I think your assessment of a comprehensive victory for the Russian Federation is correct, but I don’t think it will be swift. Not because the RF lacks the resources to achieve it (they could overrun Western Ukraine and most of Europe in a few weeks), but because a swift victory could lose them the war. The USSA is the real enemy the RF is fighting. All the other compatants are just proxies. The RF may be able to defeat NATO on the European continent but that leaves the USSA with the option it’s always used since Korea – declare victory and go home. Unless the USSA can be dragged, bloodied, broken and bleeding to the negotiating table, to accept or negotiate peace terms, the war will not be over. The RF lacks the resources to invade the USSA so the most practical option, given the disparity in industrial might and the fact that the USSA is a ‘sea-power’ and the RF isn’t, would be to prolong the war and ‘bleed the enemy white’ and trigger an economic collapse.

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