Western-made armor is failing in Ukraine because it wasn’t designed to sustain a conflict of this intensity, a military analyst told The Wall Street Journal.
Taras Chmut, a military analyst who’s the head of the Come Back Alive Foundation, which has raised money to purchase and provide arms and equipment to Ukraine, said that “a lot of Western armor doesn’t work here because it had been created not for an all-out war but for conflicts of low or medium intensity.”
“If you throw it into a mass offensive, it just doesn’t perform,” he said.
Chmut went on to say Ukraine’s Western allies should instead turn their attention to delivering simpler and cheaper systems, but in larger quantities, something Ukraine has repeatedly requested, the newspaper reported.
We may be working with different definitions of “insane”, here. We don’t know exactly what went on, it’s kinda hard to diagnose the dead, but symptom-wise his well-attested levels of mania as well as depression were anything but the sign of a well-adjusted personality. And taking meth to deal with the depression part certainly didn’t help. Could be due to multiple underlying factors, though, borderline, narcissism, plain old PTSD, a nasty neurosis, all are candidates.
Strategically, possibly, as in those things being the straws that broke the war machine’s back. Doctrinally everything about the war was straight nuts, though, like the no retreat orders. Not to mention starting it in the first place.