Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Could be a lot more soon:

U.S. believes that Russia’s 40-mile long military convoy of tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery near Kyiv is “stalled,” per senior US defense official. Ukraine also targeting convoy, which is still experiencing supply and logistics problems, the official said.

U.S. believes Ukrainian troops are targeting Russia's stalled 40-mile convoy of tanks and artillery that is "stalled" miles from Kyiv city center: senior U.S. defense official.

Hopefully this stalled convoy will go down as one of the worst blunders in military history.

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Velocio in reply to @deleted

Hopefully this stalled convoy will go down as one of the worst blunders in military history.

Hitler's equivalent led to one of the worst traffic jams in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad

The initial advance of the 6th Army was so successful that Hitler intervened and ordered the 4th Panzer Army to join Army Group South (A) to the south. A massive road block resulted when the 4th Panzer and the 1st Panzer choked the roads, stopping both in their tracks while they cleared the mess of thousands of vehicles. The traffic jam is thought to have delayed the advance by at least one week. With the advance now slowed, Hitler changed his mind and reassigned the 4th Panzer Army back to the attack on Stalingrad.

That week allowed the Soviet Union to get more material deployed to Stalingrad leading ultimately to the loss of the German 6th army.

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