Incredible.

You have a very limited set of data available to you to come to that conclusion. It is possible that I believe that everybody who doesn't share my beliefs is a terrible person. But it is also possible that you are a special case. You have one data point to go on. It's telling that you choose to believe the former rather than do the tiniest bit of introspection. Probably why you're a TERF piece of shit, and everybody in your life should be disappointed in you.

Well, I'm glad that you're happy being a disappointment to every major influential figure in your life. That's nice, at least.

Hey - if you're invader scum, you can get fucked.

Right. Yes. I said that in the very next sentence. It's an investment. The hardware is being spent towards some purpose. But the original guy I responded to seemed to think that we were giving away all our old hardware 'cause we just didn't want to pay for upkeep, which is dumb.

Ok? Well, they're either lying, or they're stupid. There is a massive amount of evidence that that is not true. For instance, just look at how they approached taking Bakhmut using human wave tactics into entrenched, well armed forces. Or their multiple failed attempts to retake Vuhledar. In both cases, it was not exactly tactical. They just kept pouring men and machines into a heavily fortified area just hoping, I guess, that the Ukrainians were asleep at the trigger. And the kicker is, neither place was particularly tactically important.

They gained no additional ground after taking Bakhmut because it's in the low ground and to advance, they'd have to take the fortified heights around it. Bakhmut offered no strategic benefit as far as logistical hubs go, and that's even before it was leveled. A smarter army would have bypassed it, but word came down from on high to take it at any cost, so that's what they did.

if they have the wrong equipment for the task at hand, wouldn’t that mean that they are worse equipped?

No? If you're talking about air force, they're definitely worse equipped than Russia. But on the ground, their equipment is newer and in better repair. They are just dealing with a unique situation from the perspective of NATO countries. You can't train on shit that you have no experience with.

if they have run through their “last reserve brigades” as the redditor in the OP screenshot says, when will they have the time to train their new guys “better”?

I don't believe they have. I'm not in Ukraine, and I don't have an in with the Ukrainian military, so I can't say for sure. But all of the Ukrainian sources that I have read suggest that they still have reserves left. They have deployed one of their most highly trained reserve forces on the south bank of the Dnipro, but they probably still have more in the areas around Kramotorsk.

As far as training, that's perpetually ongoing. Remember, the Ukrainians were invaded; they aren't the invaders. So morale among their armed forces is on average much higher than that among the Russians. They have lots of volunteers to draw on as well, both foreign and domestic. So, even though their losses have been high in meat grinders like Bakhmut, and millions of Ukrainians have fled to other countries, they're still getting a steady stream of new recruits to fill out their ranks.

you are for sure optimistic about Ukraine’s willingness to throw lives into the grinder

I mean, what choice do they have? They can't just magic the Russians away. Do you suggest that they just give up their territory and all of the people who live there? Of course they're fighting. I applaud that in them. And despite your snark, there is a very big difference tactics-wise between how the Ukrainians are approaching this fight than the Russians. For example, when Wagner was attacking Bakhmut, they would use literal human wave tactics to gain ground; they'd send several poorly armed squads at once to test multiple paths through the city. If one of them didn't die, they'd know that Ukrainian firepower was weakest in that area, so then they'd send in their better trained forces to concentrate there. THAT'S throwing people into the grinder. Ukraine does everything it can to avoid unnecessary bloodshed among their troops.

Spot on. 10/10. No notes.

LOL - fair enough. I totally misinterpreted that. :D

I'm sure battlefield medics are aware of clinical death. But, being on a battlefield, they have limited options for how to deal with it.

Not according to doctors.