Even in sad times, you always have to keep a lookout for giant cats. When you least expect them, there they are.
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Cats, charts, and politics
Cats, charts, and politics
Even in sad times, you always have to keep a lookout for giant cats. When you least expect them, there they are.
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Charlie is celebrating his namesake ... sort of. I don't imagine anyone calls Charles Charlie.
Some of us have far better feelings for your Charlie than for the UK's unbonny Prince, now King, Charles.
The British lion going back to its feline roots? Still rampant, though.
Our saviors...
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https://youtu.be/hdhyrPq3Jxc
Charlie has learned that a King Charles spaniel is ascending to the throne and he’s having none of it.
Are you not amazed at the breadth and speed of the Ukrainian counter-offensive? What's going on in Kharkiv is exceptional.
There is a deep-seated fear in the minds of most Russian soldiers that Ukraine is actually stronger than the Russian military. They are finding it incomprehensible that after months of shells and missiles fired at Ukrainian forces, the Ukrainians are able to perform this Blitzkrieg and conduct two separate major operations.
Don't use Blitzkrieg...
The Ukrainians can do some combined arms attacks, the Russians can not.
The announcement that they were going after Kherson was a great trap. Extend Russian supply lines, then keep blowing up supplies. Those supplies have to be in Ukrainian territory, so can be targeted with weapons supplied by the US, etc.
Should note, there was a front line report about an artillery unit...they asked about US howitzers...apparently the are hard to maintain.
Hardly a Blitzkrieg, literally a lightning war. Meaning as fast as a stroke of lightning. Thats how Germany rolled over Poland at the start of WWII. The Ukraine war has turned into a months-long slog after Russia's failed attempt at a Blitz.
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I find it curious that someone would not be able to recognize the clear phases of this war, even as you have identified them by description.
- Russia's failed tactical Blitzkrieg at the start. Fundamentally flawed on the assumption that a mere show of force would cause Ukraine's military and political structure to collapse. Operationally, its rigid structure could not adjust to changing situations on the ground, eventually leading to a frozen conflict and Russian equipment getting picked off one by one.
- The attrition. The slow grind of trench warfare, seeking to outlast the other side while using artillery and missiles along the front lines in the Donbas. In part, done to slow Russian advances while Ukraine trained its forces and operationally planned the next phase of the war.
- Ukraine's operational art of the Blitzkrieg. Undertaking a multi-level strategy to cause Russians to ration and reallocate resources -- munitions, equipment, and manpower -- while quietly saturating the lightly defended area with overwhelming resources. Then, without notice, launch a fast-moving counter-offensive with the objective of collapsing a GLOC hub on the backside of the Russian forces, causing Russian troops to abandon their positions and equipment, resulting in several hundred pieces of equipment destroyed or lost within a week. This is the operational art of a Blitzkrieg, though dissimilar in tactical function of whatever Germans did in WWII.
Even though dynamics will eventually shift into a new phase of the war, logistically, Russians are really in a bind: A lack of sufficient manpower, munitions, and equipment ready to be thrown into the mix. Maybe Ukraine gets lucky and this current phase is able to force Putin into peace and exit Ukraine including Crimea.
Since Russia is trying to portray Ukrainians as Nazis, avoid using a term associated with Nazi Germany.
What is happening there is that the Ukrainians have successfully cut off supplies reaching the front line troops, then are able to rout them in key places cussing sections of the Russians lines to collapse.. It's like what happened to invading Nazi troops. It will take time, and Russia will push back.
It was a term coined by the British, not Germans.
It isn't just a rout. Russians are fleeing without putting up a fight in a few areas. There's now videos of expeditionary forces reaching Severodonestsk and Lysychansk. We're talking lighting speed momentum.
If Charlie is that big, his big is the person holding the toy?
Take that you corgis.
With the turnover in stewardship, Charlie is obviously auditioning to be on a revised coat of arms for the United Kingdom. ……
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom-Lion.svg
From a letter to The Guardian:
The reason is that the lion was thought to be the animal that best personify qualities of 'Britishness' .... Strength, courage, dignity, pride etc. They presumably didn't think any native animals had the necessary qualities.
But Charlie can beat the pants off any British feline.
And here’s the Drums, being stage parents. It’s adorable. … Do you guys get to choose which castle you’ll live in once Charlie claws his way to the top, or wins “British Idol” or however they decide these things?
And by the way, maybe I missed it, but I never saw the post on who is Charlie the Future British Lion’s namesake. Charlie Dickens? Charlie de Gaulle? Charlie D. Tuna? Charlie da Vinci, Leo’s less-famous younger brother? (Leo had at least 18 half-siblings. With that many kids, one has to be a genius.)
Chaplin!! Please make it Charlie Chaplin! Every cat is an acrobatic, big-hearted Little Tramp who is really a genius at entertainment.
I saw the namesake tease too, last year. But so far, no reveal.
Seriously? Lions used to be native to the British Isles, in recorded history. Nobody had to go to Africa to find them.