Recent assaults on Chasiv Yar and Pokrovsk have proved that Russia is prepared to expend troops, weapons and time trying to capture cities even if they have little strategic value.

It’s so funny to me that every contested city is the turning point of the war and the keystone to Ukrainian defenses until the moment Russia is poised to seize it, when it becomes a useless objective, little more than dirt, low strategic value etc. It happened with Avdiivka, Bakhmut, and now with Pokrovsk and Chasiv Yar. If these settlements have so little tactical value then why are the Banderites expending so many men and resources to defend them in the first place…

The most interesting thing for me was how the West and Russia were clearly fighting two very different wars. The west fought a propaganda war primarily focused on the media and manipulation of public opinion. It was very successful within the west, but largely failed in the rest of the world. Meanwhile, Russia primarily focused on fighting a war of attrition and used propaganda in support of material conditions that were developing. While The west managed to control the narrative early on, the material reality ultimately ended up asserting itself, and now the whole narrative is starting to collapse.

You have to wonder where they get this capture-the-flag mentality because it sure as shit didn’t work in Afghanistan or Iraq, it didn’t work in Vietnam either.