No matter how much times change, it will always become impossible to breathe at some point if the enemy continues to pile his dead young men onto you.

[–] antimidas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

However, there's only so many times the enemy in this case is actually able to use the tactic. Russia has absolutely no way to replace losses on the battlefield with their birth rates, which are consistently among the lowest in the whole world. Much of the manpower in soviet times was from the former bloc that's now either at war with Russia, joined NATO, or a reluctant vassal like is the case with Belarus. Ukraine is also next to the only country in Europe where piling more bodies to the front works even to this extent, as there are fewer natural defenses compared to the likes of Poland and Finland.

Was there a conflict between NATO and Russia, it wouldn't be long before dying at the front would be the new Russian pension scheme. A dying empire that has been quickly withering even before a war, for three decades, simply doesn't have a route to a recovery.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Not if you have sufficient 155mm artillery, then the enemy can pile all the bodies they want at the foot of your defenses and they will barely ever make any progress.... hence one of the reasons for the historically bad advance rate of the russian army in this war.