Very important thread. Russia has always fought wars by being willing to take enormous losses and overwhelming the enemy with sheer numbers. Sometimes this works. Very often, it does not work.

Great thread on history of Russian warfare. TLDR: For all the shocking ineptitude of the Russian offensive, it has for more than 100 years honed a low-efficiency, high volume strategy: pour it on thick, take heavily losses, and hope the other side quits first.