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  Repel would’ve made a lot more sense.
context: Haven't they been doing this for months though? >
  
  Most of the Russian positions in the Donbas are stabilized and defensive. They've committed to taking Bakhmut as a point of pride/arrogance/honor, and have been attacking the city nonstop for months. For some strange reason they keep supplying materiel and troops to this specific offensive, and they've turned it into a WW1 Verdun style trench slaughter of their own troops. So yes, they've been doing this for months, and Ukraine keeps hanging on to the ruins of the city. >
  
  It's important to note that the Russians compare it to Verdun, and liken their own tactics to those of the Germans. It's like they've forgotten how much of a disaster Verdun was for the Germans. >
  
  What do you mean?
  In terms of cassulties France suffered much more than Germany, making the battle a "sucess" >
  
  Germany and France suffered very similar casualties in Verdun >
  
  France had 10% more casulties
  In the fucked up world of attritional warfare that is a "sucess"
  There is a reason why I wrote it like that >
  
  10% more French casualties was a loss for the Germans as the Germans didn't have that many men, where as rhe French coukd draw on lots of reserves. >
  
  Apparently Russian prisons are minus 40K prisoners. >
  
  So it's still 2022. >
  
  I actually like to think it’s 2020 (2). Can’t wait for 2020 (3)! >
  
  Honestly it is just " the 2020s " a rough decade full of crazy shit. >
  
  The 2020s started in 2016. >
  
  That was the primer. >
  
  That 2016 pilot episode sucks. Hopefully the finale sucks less. >
  
  Repulse: drive back by force >
  
  "repel" would be a more common word to use, but yeah, repulse works too.