A donkey needs to eat. Grass is free in summer but limited. You need a lot of land to grow that grass. the donkey needs to eat even when you don't use it. Oil in modern cars are a lot cheaper for the amount of work you get. Acoup.org has a lot more details on how hard horse logistics are.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or treat it as a delivery of ammo plus a delivery of meat.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That is an option, though troops on the front lines processing meat are sure to die as they are not moving and thus become an easy target.

Donkeys also are hard to produce - I don't know enough details of their breeding cycle that say much here, but the limits should be obvious.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it might be a bad plan, but that doesn't rule it out as the plan.

Unless Putin is secretly up to something else and is ok throwing away hundreds of thousands of people plus all the military equipment they've lost, this whole thing looks like a bad plan.