Excellent analysis as always, and this is novel -- the analogy with WWII should scare Russians and their western cheerleaders. The 3rd Reich had the industrial wherewithal to up production while the RAF/USAF were actively engaged in destroying its capacity at scale. Ukraine's attacks on Russian back end infrastructure are likely more devastating, and these stupid arrogant drunks have absolutely no recourse, as Nazi Germany did, to a national indigenous innovative base to deal with it. All they can do is piss away their missile stockpile on terror attacks on civilians, which has zero impact on Ukraine's capacity to wage war.
I find it very frustrating that so many analysts appear to have forgotten or ignore these lessons.
Ukraine has an incredibly clear pathway to simply outlasting the Russians, similarly to how the Allies outlasted the Germans, the Vietnamese the Americans, or the Afghans the Soviets.
Today, Russia bombed a Kyiv Mcdonald's, which sells maybe 84 kilowatt hours' worth of burgers per day. How many kWh of energy is in each storage tank in the Voronezh oil depot that Ukraine just blew up? 150,000 cubic meters of jet fuel is roughly 1.4 billion kWh. Very uneconomical use of a missile by Russia, and a piss poor energy tradeoff between a Mcdonald's franchise and a strategic military fuel depot.
Excellent analysis as always, and this is novel -- the analogy with WWII should scare Russians and their western cheerleaders. The 3rd Reich had the industrial wherewithal to up production while the RAF/USAF were actively engaged in destroying its capacity at scale. Ukraine's attacks on Russian back end infrastructure are likely more devastating, and these stupid arrogant drunks have absolutely no recourse, as Nazi Germany did, to a national indigenous innovative base to deal with it. All they can do is piss away their missile stockpile on terror attacks on civilians, which has zero impact on Ukraine's capacity to wage war.
I find it very frustrating that so many analysts appear to have forgotten or ignore these lessons.
Ukraine has an incredibly clear pathway to simply outlasting the Russians, similarly to how the Allies outlasted the Germans, the Vietnamese the Americans, or the Afghans the Soviets.
Totally agree, and I share your frustration.
Today, Russia bombed a Kyiv Mcdonald's, which sells maybe 84 kilowatt hours' worth of burgers per day. How many kWh of energy is in each storage tank in the Voronezh oil depot that Ukraine just blew up? 150,000 cubic meters of jet fuel is roughly 1.4 billion kWh. Very uneconomical use of a missile by Russia, and a piss poor energy tradeoff between a Mcdonald's franchise and a strategic military fuel depot.
Thank you. Given the uncertain elements in western (us) aid, these are encouraging news indeed.
Absolutely. Ukraine's long-range strike program is moving in the right direction.