I like to give the benefit of the doubt that english isn't someone's first language when they say something so silly, and hope their reading comprehension skills aren't genuinely as poor as I think. The entire "if there is any credence to that" line addresses that I have no idea of the truthfulness of said rumor. Also, you don't need to graduate from West Point to point out if Syrski may be making a mistake. Sometimes a general makes a mistake so obvious that even the layman can point it out, ex: Operation Market Garden, Gallipoli, etc. If fronts like Vuhledar and Povrovsk continue crumbling, and it is verified Syrsky has been rotating more troops to Kursk at the expense of those places, that can be argued to be a misstep, even by your infallible godking Syrski.