Ukraine’s Recent Attack on the Crimean Bridge & Why it Doesn’t Matter Strategically

▪️ Ukraine has struck the Crimean Bridge again, killing several civilians and damaging the bridge;

▪️While waiting for a full assessment on damage, it appears support columns are intact, one road section is damaged, rail traffic is able to run;

▪️Before the bridge was constructed and before the SMO established a land bridge, ferries and shipping supplied the Russian peninsula; ▪️Crimea can/will survive without the bridge in even the WORST case scenario;

▪️Russia will respond with strategic patience, as it always does, because that is how conflicts are won;

▪️Sun Tzu in The Art of War says: “it is the unemotional, reserved, detached warrior who wins, not the hothead seeking vengeance and not the ambitious seeker of fortune.”

▪️There is a good reason Russia demonstrates patience even after the most extreme provocations, this is why after over a year of fighting NATO’s combined might, Russia still has the advantage…

References:

BBC – Ukraine war: Two dead after ’emergency’ on Crimea bridge (July 17, 2023): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe… RT – Traffic stopped on Crimean Bridge due to ‘emergency’ – governor (July 17, 2023): https://www.rt.com/russia/579814-crim… Guardian – Putin opens 12-mile bridge between Crimea and Russian mainland (May 2018): https://www.theguardian.com/world/201… Guardian – Russia’s bridge link with Crimea moves nearer to completion (August 2017): https://www.theguardian.com/world/201… BBC – Ukraine conflict: Putin ally to build bridge to Crimea (January 2015): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe… Institute for the Study of War (ISW) – The Russian Military’s Lessons Learned in Syria (January 2021): https://www.understandingwar.org/repo… USAID, IRI – Public Opinion Survey Residents of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea May 16 – 30, 2013: https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/pnaec7… The Art of War, Sun Tzu: https://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html The Art of War (additional quote/interpretation): https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3223…