The Military Value of Bar-of-Mouth

The Russian offensive has already finished. The Russian have shot their bolt for their 2023 offensive, and it was centered on bar-of-mouth. They saw it as a natural stepping stone towards taking all of Donbass. It's really not. No military value really intrinsically to either side. For the Ukrainian perspective, they could set up defenses on the western part of bar-Of-mouth and just forget about them. But the Russians were determined to take that town. This is going to become a Russian killing field,. The Russians call it, predictably, the meat grider. Now, Pragosian says he's lost 20,000 alone in bar- Of-mouth. So my

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