Wednesday, October 05, 2022

5: Ukraine

Ukraine is hitting Russia hard in the regions Moscow is trying to seize Reports from the ground suggested that voting took place both essentially and literally at gunpoint.

Putin formalizes annexation claims even as Ukraine forces Russian military to retreat Kyiv said that its troops were making rapid advances in the south and the east, retaking land and exposing the Kremlin’s struggle to match its political theater with the reality on the battlefield. ........ Ukrainian advances exposed the Kremlin’s struggle to match its political theater with the reality on the battlefield. ....... Ukraine's military has forced Russian troops to fall back to their second defensive line, but there has not yet been a collapse like the one seen during Ukraine’s lightning counteroffensive in the northeast last month ...... The troops being mobilized will still take weeks to arrive in numbers, and seem likely to be poorly trained, badly equipped and supplied, and fed into a military organization that is already in many cases demoralized ....... “Modern land warfare is lethal to poorly trained troops,” he added. “It is likely that any newly mobilized forces will evaporate like water under the stress of combat.”



We Know Shockingly Little About What Makes Humanity Prosper Patrick Collison calls for a new “science of progress.” ........

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