teeth. Some of them will get knocked out in the process, some will face issues displacing dragons teeth/get stuck. Invariably a portion will reach them & breach them, and hope to God the other side is not yet another mine belt. At this point your actual breach force, the tanks,

IFVs, HMMWVs etc etc can push through & begin assaulting the defended trenches (or treelines) and hope they're minimally defended/enough of the assault force survived to get there. But your follow on forces are still having to stream through these narrow channels to slowly get

enough forces through the gap. Hopefully you've made multiple successful beaches so any one effort failing or stalling doesn't ruin your push. All the while you hopefully have reserve engineering forces to widen the breaches: for follow on forces, to evacuate casualties, or in

case an effort fails, that you can safely exit without getting trapped.

Ukraine knows all of this. Ukraine's allies know all of this. Ukraine is getting equipment to help deal with this. But even for highly funded modern militaries who train extensively on just this type of

operation, conducting a breach of extensive prepared defensive obstacles against an enemy you can only do so much to degrade before the push (especially without broadcasting where exactly you're going to attack) is one of the most dangerous offensive actions you can take. My

point with all this is not 'Ukraine can't do this'. They can. They have proven time & time again they're up to offensive action. My point is, like everything else, these obstacle belts are incredibly dangerous, will eat up a lot of Ukrainian lives & equipment, & it's unwise to

laugh them away like they're not a very deadly impediment to Ukraine expelling the Russian attackers. Even a lackluster defense of prepares obstacles can completely shut it down if things don't go perfectly. You clear a lane two vehicles wide and then two vehicles hit a landmine

your lane is not useless & needs to be cleared of those wrecks, or a new lane made. Russia correctly interprets imagery from thousands of drones along the FLOT and guesses where the breach will be/assigns enough artillery assets there. An overnight heavy rain makes wheeled vics

impossible to use, etc etc etc. But make no mistake, the dozens of videos we've seen of Ukraine training to breach extensive obstacle belts means they sure as fuck aren't laughing off dragons teeth or vehicle ditches. Nor should you.

I do want to reiterate because I think this is missed in a lot of these conversations: the entire time this is happening you are under Fire. Given the flat terrain of Ukraine in most places that likely means every weapon the enemy has is firing at you. This is unbelievably hard.

Ukraine Memes for NATO Teens yep, it seems like people should know better because russia failed this invasion precisely because of overconfidence and underestimating Ukrainian forces.