Then they charge each other's forts and replace the flags.
A rear guard would allow most of the Ukrainian troops to escape. That would leave a stay behind force to fend for itself with a high probability of capture. All available air power to include drones should be
used to keep the escape route open. There is not use in recapturing Pokrovsk or any other city now held by Russia.
In the video below, a squad of Ukrainians seek to raise the flag above a destroyed town held by Russians. Assuming it is not propaganda, it's a waste of men and equipment to make such an insignificant gain.
Ukraine can afford to waste their resources on do-nothing counterattacks or photo-ops. They need layered defense belts of trenches, minefields, pre-sighting of roads for artillery, and staged vehicles to evacuate troops in danger of being overrun.
Take away the benefits of chastity and celibacy, and all that's left is survival and reproduction. Dog eat dog, natural selection, law of the jungle, kill or be killed.
Probably the oddest result of the so-called sexual revolution is the demonization of chastity and celibacy. Delayed gratification is the bedrock of civilization and marriage is built upon that foundation. If men and women have no hope of stable, long-term relationships that produce children, there won't be a new generation to keep every other institution going. Put another way, every man who can't find a woman means another woman who can't find a man.
For the vast majority of human history, the only way men and women could be sure about paternity was though chastity. Men in general do not want to pay for the upkeep of children who aren't theirs nor the women who gave birth to them. Women do not want to be stuck caring for children with no man to help.
In prior centuries and even today, celibate people have been some of the most productive and creative. Science, art, philosophy, etc are largely the products of men who either couldn't or didn't have offspring. If the carrot is sex, children, and companionship, then the stick includes things like a tax on bachelors, outlawing prostitution, and censoring explicit media.
Religions like Christianity and Islam do a good job of have the right mix of carrots and sticks, but secular urban liberalism has been gnawing away at both for more than half a century. If the incentives are weakened or broken, they lose their effectiveness. It amuses me that only a country as bipolar puritanical as the US would consider the loss of virginity such a large milestone on the path life. There's a reason why marriages are often expensive, public celebrations while one's first orgasm is not.
Sex is not a mystery to those who grow up around farm animals or watch lots of nature documentaries.
It's important to realize that most pop culture comes from a very small subset of the secular, urban population. For that subset, sexual is probably the most interesting and memorable sensation they ever experience. Oh yeah, and it can be proved mathematically that most people lie about their number of sexual partners, because every time a man had sex with a woman, a woman has sex with a man. The same is true for LGBT etc.
For those out there feeling embarrassed about their lack of sexual experience, please believe me when I say it really isn't a big deal. The big deal is having a baby to take care of when you didn't want one. Incurable STDs also exist. In general, it's a mistake to seek validation from others.
We should all be glad we don't reproduce like these critters:
Ukraine can slow Russian advances to a crawl, but they will increasingly face the choice of losing men and territory or just losing territory while retreating to other more defensible positions.
Stay-behind and/or partisan forces could help. The preparation for that needs to come well in advance of any other retreat.
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Operation Gladio was a covert NATO operation during the Cold War, designed to establish "stay-behind" armies in Europe to counter potential Soviet invasions and influence, often involving controversial tactics and connections to right-wing terrorism.
Basically, because Chinese people and dumb people are equally numerous, they could march in a never-ending parade past the same place because new dumb and Chinese people would be born along the way.
The inverse correlation of intelligence and fertility has been common knowledge for decades. ChatGPT merely shifted it to warp speed. American academic standards have been abysmal for a long time as well.
I want to emphasize that IQ is irrelevant to the ability to raise children. There might even be a negative correlation. Eugenics was wrong and is wrong.
Regression to the mean is another factor. In other words, even if we tried to breed more smart people on purpose, we'd quickly hit a plateau. For the same reason, even if we tried to selectively breed people to be taller, we'd hit a limit there as well.
Bottom line, if you want to be smart, just read lots of books and talk with many people. And if you want your smart genes to passed on to the next generation, don't wait too long.
