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I’m not sure we have seen the death of the Tank.
The Telegraph article alludes to the tactical and doctrine errors made by Russia.
Their Army was equipped for a massed attack of hundreds of tanks, supported by thousands of infantry in Fighting vehicles supported by massed artillery. Employing it in small packets proved beyond their training and ability. They also failed to get air superiority.
The massed tank attacks should have been shot in with tube and MRLS strikes and supported by SU25 ground attack aircraft and Helicopters suppressing any defending infantry armed with NLAW etc.

(Obviously quite happy they didn’t)

You join at 18 do 22 years and retire at 40 unless you become very senior. If you are infantry your knees retire before the age of 30.

In a largely conscript army you only have most soldiers for 1 or 2 years so you have to promote NCOs quickly so you have the right ratios of NCOs/Privates on mobilisation.
In the Soviet army anyone with potential was put through an extra couple of months training after basic training and promoted to sergeant.

I had a keyhole hernia op in February inserting a 10x4 cm mesh.
Did nobody else have the stupendously swollen scrotum?

Isn’t doing over 100mph a ban on its own (and possibly jail)? The article mentions a ban under totting up.

Chomsky, for his part, believes that Russia’s military is simply too strong to lose

This is where his argument fails.

However the Russians have a National myth of victory via massive sacrifice and may choose to lose their way to victory as they did in WWII. Taking casualties at a rate of between 1:7 and. 1:3 against the Germans.

Or it might be 1917 a collapse of the army and revolution at home. Maybe Olaf Scholz isn’t dicking around trying not to send help to Ukraine hoping for a gentle Russian regime change but is secretly preparing another sealed train.

That might depend on the EU overlooking Turkey’s human rights record and allowing them to join.

South China Morning Post?Don’t they now promote the Chinese Government, who have committed many atrocities in the past and thus aren’t entitled to comment on current war crimes?

That is a report written by proponents of bombing who claim 305,000 civilian deaths 1/10 of your own claim. I’m surprised you aren’t doubting it’s veracity.
Nor does it explain why the 1942 bombing campaign produced a 1941 surrender.

So those Germans surrendered in 1941 because of RAF bombing of civilians that didn’t start till February 1942?

What evidence can you give to support the idea that the majority of the German population lost the will to fight and when did this happen?

How many lost the will to fight in 1941 and how did this manifest itself?

So with 3 million civilian dead did the Germans loose the will to fight?

I can’t think of many examples of Germany or Japan loosing the will to fight, mass desertions, mutiny etc. The Germans fought amazing rearguard actions look at the time between D day and the fall of Berlin.
The Japanese high command would have happily sacrificed millions of civilians. They may have had fall in morale in the Army but this was due to poor leadership from Officers and NCOs not civilian deaths

the nation will lose the will to fight. This has happened many times in other wars.

Examples?

My Dad has had an incurable cancer that will kill him for at least 8 years. Various treatments have prolonged his life.

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I made a Trump wig for mine

Dry robe LLL

It’s a Knockout wearing jodhpurs, riding boots etc? I’m which case I’ll watch.

I don’t like horsey stuff but the element of chance and skill of someone riding a horse they didn’t know was surely part of the attraction. Modern sportspeople have invested so much they hate the idea of chance or human error hence videos referees.
Is this one reason Paris-Roubaix is popular with fans, anyone can break a rim?

If I eat or drink immediately at the top of a climb my heart rate surges/I have problems breathing/slight panic attack.. is this a thing?

Did the wheels go?

Ive fired some 9mm that could barely make it down a 30m range, it was going out of date and must have been badly stored.
When most 7.62mm weapons were being phased out I did a shoot at dusk with thousands of rounds of 1-in-1 tracer to use it up. It looks like a solid red line from your barrel, the range looked like a scene from Star Wars.

NATO members commit to keep X amount of stuff in stock and most only keep that amount. With stuff like ration packs that goes out of date the stock is rotated with the old stuff being issued for training and new bought. So they never have a surplus unless NATO agree to release stock.
It also means everything you train with is at the end of its life.

A cab company we subbed work to (Freedom Cars,Old Compton Street)told us this story, they had a fare of 4 blokes in suits going north …..Islington, Archway etc. one of them was passed out from drink. They dropped the others off one by one each shoved a note in the unconscious guy’s pocket. Second last one gives the driver an address for the last (asleep)guy. At the address the driver wakes him up and says your home mate. The drunk says this isn’t Streatham, the cash shoved in his pocket turns out to be old receipt’s, he doesn’t know the other 3 guys.

I woke up once thinking I was in Leeds but had somehow ended up passed out at a house party in Bradford, confused a shopkeeper asking for directions home.

And the anticipation when you know you are going to sneeze