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rm-rd t1_j6akcgg wrote
Reply to comment by NotDarkBrandon in Ukraine: ‘Fast-track’ talks underway for missiles, planes by bluelotus214
> Every dead Russian invader is a Ukrainian life saved.
No. Russia will just replace them. Or it bleeds white, which raises the risk of nukes.
To reduce lives lost (on both sides), either Ukraine or Russia needs to actually start winning with maneuver / tactical warfare, rather than WWI style positional warfare.
To win with maneuver warfare, Ukraine needs more equipment (tanks, planes, etc). This is how they won the Kherson counteroffensive (with a ton of ground taken and Russian heavy equipment destroyed). You don't need to kill the enemy, if you can overrun their position and force them to surrender. Russian had about 2-3000 lives lost which is a far more acceptable price than the hundreds dead every day in Bakhmut (where it's a WWI style battle with thousands dying to conquer a few metres of ground).
As for Russia, they've tried to win with maneuver warfare but it's hard to do this with incompetent command and Ukraine's extremely gutsy defence.
rm-rd t1_j9syg5y wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Boris Johnson calls on UK to 'break the ice' by sending fighter jets to Ukraine - and warns China against 'historic mistake' by R1ckCrypto
IMO the most escalatory thing that can happen is the war drags on, without giving Putin an excuse to back out.
The evil NATO jets (as Russia will probably call them) could both shorten the war (thus fewer lives lost on both sides) and give Putin a scapegoat for his loss.