Ukraine Always Get What You Want

Robert Farley, a prof at Kentucky's Patterson School for IR and one of the bloggers at lawyersgunsmoney has a piece on another IR blog noting that the planes originally offered by Poland and Slovakia offered little real military value to the Ukrainians as they are obsolete and essentially sitting ducks for Russian anti-aircraft and fighter planes.

 

Let's see if this pxp is even still going in two weeks.

What's on TV?

 

Nobel winners from Novaya Gazeta:

How Russia’s Nobel-Winning Newspaper Is Covering Ukraine

 

Hertling is great. So are many of the military types CNN brings out.

Speaking of military, SJ has members who serve. Question for them: why not bomb the shit out of that 40-mile phalanx of Russian tanks and kill machines?

 

I can't speak specifically about bombing the shit out of it, but it does seem like sacrificing one or two of your own bridges to halt their progress would be worthwhile.
If the terrain is right, you could hit the front and back of the column to keep the middle from moving forward or retreating.

 

If Ukraine is getting all these stingers and high priced war toys, I would think they'd create dozens of big holes up and down that road.

 

Hertling had your answer a couple pages ago:

 

I assume that 40-mile column is not bogged down so much as it’s paused, waiting for the carpet bombing of Kiev to begin and end.

 

It's easier said than done. This isn't the Highway of Death in Desert Storm. The Ukrainians do not have uncontested control of the skies that allows them to fire at will.
The Russians, if they're remotely competent, will have fighter jets patrolling and some ground-based anti-aircraft units ready to respond to anything approaching them. The potential for air strikes is probably there, but the Ukrainians would take a beating and chew up a lot of their remaining air strength trying to hit the column.

Blowing up some bridges and doing some hit-and-run attacks from land might be a better way to slow them down, assuming they have forces available to do it. Go all Teutoberg Forest on them and carve them up piecemeal.