Ukraine fears increased Russian aggression after US halt of weapons supply

This was an obsessive info dump/weird rant.. but I do mean this seriously, it is clear that 155mm artillery for Ukraine must be making a massive difference for the infantry and warfighters on the frontline in Ukraine. The kind of ridiculous odds and incredibly intense assaults a small group of people fighting for their lives can survive with well trained and well coordinated 155mm support is absurd. It saves lives and it provies a meaningful psychological difference to the people risking their lives against the brunt of the Russian war machine to know they have consistent fire support like that. From a general's standpoint you also don't need "meat shields" to screen your high value high impact weapons when you have thorough 155mm artillery support because extremely threatening enemy movements can be restricted with artillery fire rather than waves of WW1 style infantry rushes or suicidal armored vehicle pushes into weapons that can easily defeat their armor. This isn't to say that without artillery, generals will indiscriminately waste human lives, but rather that the most intense flashpoints of battles without artillery support become much more hellish, it is counter intuitive but it is brutally true. Things literally become a melee. A 155mm barrage creates that melee with just artillery shells and fools who think they can coexist with the artillery shells and continue their assault.

Further, while drones can absolutely deliver these types of munitions one has to also consider the pyschological trauma that is being endured by the soldiers operating those drones. I will not speak for them, but all I can say is I have no desire to watch the graphic FPV videos. That isn't a judgement, it is a privilege that I don't have to experience those things first hand and my point is that some people don't have that privilege and artillery systems like the ones I am going on about provide a real mental health capacity to reduce the intense trauma that must come from killing person after person with a flying machine that you originally got into flying because of the fun creative possibilities you saw, not necessarily the raw violent potential it unlocked. That kind of killing can be reserved for more limited and decisive contexts instead of as a general mass assault on the minds of soldiers on both sides...

No, this is a critical shift in the war on many levels for Ukraine even with the US deflating like a toxic waste facility melting down into its own radioactive waste.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=--JmEF446fE&vl=en

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Definitely scary, but they have failed to launch an offensive now of any real momentum this spring, what will change in the medium term? Russia essentially demechanized its army by blasting through most of its armor. It is building up T90 tanks, but that is a longer term process.
What I think we will see are drone attacks meant to evoke mass media coverage without Russia being able to gather serious momentum in an organized armored offensive at least at a broad level.
- The javelins will be sorely missed. They were a bit of a silver bullet against those T90s
  
  This was an obsessive info dump/weird rant.. but I do mean this seriously, it is clear that 155mm artillery for Ukraine must be making a massive difference for the infantry and warfighters on the frontline in Ukraine. The kind of ridiculous odds and incredibly intense assaults a small group of people fighting for their lives can survive with well trained and well coordinated 155mm support is absurd. It saves lives and it provies a meaningful psychological difference to the people risking their lives against the brunt of the Russian war machine to know they have consistent fire support like that. From a general's standpoint you also don't need "meat shields" to screen your high value high impact weapons when you have thorough 155mm artillery support because extremely threatening enemy movements can be restricted with artillery fire rather than waves of WW1 style infantry rushes or suicidal armored vehicle pushes into weapons that can easily defeat their armor. This isn't to say that without artillery, generals will indiscriminately waste human lives, but rather that the most intense flashpoints of battles without artillery support become much more hellish, it is counter intuitive but it is brutally true. Things literally become a melee. A 155mm barrage creates that melee with just artillery shells and fools who think they can coexist with the artillery shells and continue their assault.
  Further, while drones can absolutely deliver these types of munitions one has to also consider the pyschological trauma that is being endured by the soldiers operating those drones. I will not speak for them, but all I can say is I have no desire to watch the graphic FPV videos. That isn't a judgement, it is a privilege that I don't have to experience those things first hand and my point is that some people don't have that privilege and artillery systems like the ones I am going on about provide a real mental health capacity to reduce the intense trauma that must come from killing person after person with a flying machine that you originally got into flying because of the fun creative possibilities you saw, not necessarily the raw violent potential it unlocked. That kind of killing can be reserved for more limited and decisive contexts instead of as a general mass assault on the minds of soldiers on both sides...
  No, this is a critical shift in the war on many levels for Ukraine even with the US deflating like a toxic waste facility melting down into its own radioactive waste.
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=--JmEF446fE&vl=en