Flying Fokker
Well-Known Member
The numbers stack up against Ukraine. I’m rooting for them. The problem is the same as ever. Russia throws ordinance over etc
I’m the same, It is a common myth that Russia had more men than the German’s had bullets, obvious really. Germany made a series of tactical errors. One of their biggest being the fact that they needed to take Moscow/Stalin out early. How? More reading needed, me thinks?
There is also a concern that Putin wants a ceasefire so that he can train up his conscripts/reservists. Ready for a spring offensive. I’m convinced that this is going to become a face to face slog over the next few months. It will be easier for the equipment to move as well.
Ukraine is being fed as much advanced technology as possible, Russia is acquiring some as well.
Came across this snippet:
Any war can be won if you kill enough of the enemy and that was what Germany tried to do in Barbarossa. It’s called attrition. However, unless you have a considerable technical edge (machine guns and railroads vs. spears in the 19th century), you need to have a significantly larger population with a lot more soldiers than your enemy in order to accomplish this. In World War II, Germany fielded a few wonder weapons, but she did not have a significant enough edge in technology to make up for her smaller population and poor economic management compared to the Soviet Union, to say nothing of the U.S. Her only chance of defeating the Soviets was to win in the initial attack in 1941, before the Soviets could fully mobilize their resources (the Axis forces outnumbered the Red Army when the invasion started). However, the Germans failed to destroy the Red Army, failed to prevent the evacuation of production facilities to the east, and failed to take Moscow or force the collapse of the Soviet government. To put it a bit brutally, Germany achieved an unusually favorable exchange ratio (Wehrmacht deaths vs. Red Army deaths), but the Germans could not sustain the losses and the Soviets could.
You should keep in mind that the bulk of Soviet deaths in the war were civilians, not soldiers. (Soviet rather than Russian, since the Soviet Union was a multi-ethnic state and the war in the Soviet Union was largely fought in the Baltic States, the Ukraine and Byelorussia.) In addition, the Nazi war aim was to colonize the area west of the Urals with German settlers, and they envisioned the death or displacement of tens of millions of people living there, and the effective enslavement of any who remained. Putting the war purely in terms of keeping Stalin or the Communist Party in power misses the point of what the Nazis were trying to do.
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