More wrong tactics.It will be a variety of causes, but a lack of active protection on their tanks is allowing anti tank missiles to have a field day. Their lack of air superiority is down to the vulnerability of their aircraft- wrong weapons for the terrain perhaps.
Drones are proving effective- I think the west will be working hard to create counter measures.
They have been firing Grads,which tells me they may be out of precision guided missiles......could be wrong though.More wrong tactics.
They are flying in the MANDPAD zone and getting picked off. If they stuck to using precision guided weapons from high altitudes then maybe they'd fair better. But as you say, maybe they don't have the right weapons, and I'm not sure carpet bombing would go down too well these days.
You get the feeling that it's more basic, which on a battlefield could be a good thing when you're dealing with what seems to be conscript or not very well trained soldiers.
It was France and Germany who vetoed Ukraine's bid to join NATO in 2008. If they hadn't we wouldn't be having this war now, or we'd be having WWIII, depending on how insane Putin is at present.Yes it is. The Germans and French in particular are doing little, mainly to protect their economies.
Or source fossil fuel elsewhere. Don't cripple businesses and families with "green taxes" to disguise a procurement f*ck up.If a country is reliant on imported fossil fuels such as oil and gas, then the logical solution is renewable energy solutions and nuclear power. No one is holding anyone hostage over wind farms.
I do hope so.The Russians will be in for a surprise in Donbas.
And meanwhile innocents are slaughtered and put in mobile crematoriums.In fairness to Germany I have heard one commentator liken trying to get russian influence/dependence out of Europe to trying to remove the eggs from a cake after it's been baked. The (silly) Germans binned nuclear after Fukushima and ended up reliant on russian gas. Unless they want to freeze their own population to death and cause a reactionary swing to the adf, then we'll have to accept it will take them time to shift their energy dependency.
Deffo mate,they are mostly battle hardened in that area.I do hope so.
Bollocks. I'll give you some more realistic numbers:Herr Merkel made Germany reliant on Russia for energy and fuel.
Now politicians are dressing up this disaster by pushing for "green initiatives" using climate change as an excuse to move away from her balls up.
Germany has sent circa £30bn to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine.
I would definitely prefer having to put a couple of extra layers on to keep warm as opposed to having tanks roll down my street. It is truly unimaginable what people are having to endure over there.And meanwhile innocents are slaughtered and put in mobile crematoriums.
Perhaps Germany could try harder, it will hurt their economy and it will make life hard for them, but not as hard as a ukranian living, in fear, in a cellar, with no running water, little food and a rapist/murderer outside.