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For anyone unfamiliar with the Battle of Dien Bien Phu the concept of the French strategy was to encourage the Viet Minh to concentrate their forces and attack the isolated French garrison in a well fortified position to their advantage. Once the Viet Minh attacked, they would encounter a meat grinder and be easy pickings for superior French firepower and air support to wipe them out instead of chasing them across Indochina. What happened instead is the Viet Minh arrived with more firepower than the French garrison, isolated them from their support, and destroyed them.
The exact same thing is playing out in the Donbass. The Ukrainians set up line after line of defense and fortresses like Dien Bien Phu but on a massive scale. The premise of this, I'm assuming, is they wanted the Russians to attack these pockets in concentrated spearheads to create a "meat grinder" and cripple the Russian army. What's happening instead is the Russians are spreading their forces and using much more superior firepower to isolate and annihilate these defensive positions. This is why the Ukrainians keep insisting they are grinding down the Russians by letting themselves get surrounded and overwhelmed; they are following this brain dead plan that NATO advisors gave to them and are insisting it's working when it isn't even close.
RT: https://poa.st/objects/0fcd536f-3d3f-44a9-9804-4103356e3b8d