Its more that all the drama has gone out of the conflict now that Israel is the "current thing." Ukraine is being cut loose, and what little chance it had to "win" has completely evaporated. There is no real chance of Ukraine retaking Crimea or pushing Russia out of the Donbass now. NATO also won't be going in hot. Its just a question of how far Russia can push and at what cost. To me, people still supporting Ukraine are like people taking their 6th booster. You just shake your head and move on. No argument, meme or dunking on is going to change that mind. |
Oh nonsense. Somewhere between 190,000 and 290,000 Russian soldiers are dead. Including nearly all Spetsnaz and VDV. More than 5000 tanks have demonstrably been destroyed. More than 9000 APCs. Plus artillery. Plus more than half their helicopters. Plus the flagship of the Black Sea fleet. Russia will not be invading anyone else for generations. If only Ukraine had air dominance, they could finish this once and for all. But they don't. And so it grinds on in places like Avdiivka, which was a catastrophe for Russia. |
LOL then clearly Ukraine doesn't need any more help or money. It sounds like you think Russia is defeated already so what else do they need? |
You don't have to make up numbers, there are very good sources for Russian losses out there, all 34,000 of them: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng Unlike other sources, with Mediazona you get name, rank, week of death, part of the service and other granular data. Its also open source, so if you think they missed someone, or lots of someones, you can tell them. But I guess you'd rather stick with the "trust me bro" numbers you found somewhere. |
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I’m still so surprised Russia still has not figured out what took down the Wagner plane with all leadership on it.
It is really surprising that they have not asked the NTSB or an international group to help investigate. It makes you wonder if maybe the Kremlin is covering up something. Russia seemed like it was a really great, modern place in Moscow and a few other spots. Seems to have taken a quick turn into ISIS with alcohol. And porn, lots of porn. |
So what you are saying is more good manufacturing jobs for Russians in Russia then? And they got to upgrade their military equipment. |
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What manufacturing jobs? Russia hasn't had manufacturing jobs in decades. It's nothing more than a gas station run by the mafia that used to have an army.
Russia has been in a demographic crisis for 30 years. The last thing they can afford is to lose an entire generation of 18-39 year old men. Russia's destiny is to go back to being the illiterate backwater it's always been. It doesn't have the demographics - or the army - to continue to be an imperial country. |
True. Their only other manufacturing sector was weapons. This war has exposed just how inferior Russian weapons are to, well, just about anything else available. And the Russians can’t even procure materials to fulfill orders now. |
Oh, you haven’t heard about the “grenade”? https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-hand-grenade-fragments-found-bodies-prigozhin-plane-crash-2023-10-05/ I thought it was hilarious. |
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Lie lie lie lie lie…. Send money.
-V. Zelensky, Russian speaker and Ukranian President. |
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Tom Graham just had a new book published, and Stephen Kotkin is giving interviews from time to time, they both dig Russia, just in different ways, since one is a former diplomats and the other is a historian. Well they both said that the occupied territories are most likely to be kept by Russia. They are both supportive of Ukraine so it’s not Russian trolling.
The issue now is the exit strategy and how many lives can still be saved. I think it’s possible for Ukraine to keep the Russians where they are now, but at what cost? |
That does seem to be Ukraine's strategy presently - war by attrition. They learned this summer that they can't get through the minefields without suffering horrific casualties. So they don't. But increasingly, they've developed an advantage with artillery, tanks, drones, and tactical missiles, which allow them to hit nearly 200 km behind the lines. Ukraine is making this invasion incredibly costly for Russian invaders. And I don't see that ending. Ukraine might not be able to take back all of Donbass and Crimea. But they can continue to utterly destroy Russia, tank by tank, platoon by platoon. Russia lost hundreds of pieces of equipment and thousands of soldiers last week in a very misguided, poorly led offensive. With time, supplying Crimea will become incredibly difficult and costly for Russia. And of course, Russia can't afford any of this. The wheels will start to come off over the next year or two. Russia is between a rock and a hard place. And there's no way out. |
Not entirely true that they aren't advancing through the minefields, either. They have breached many parts of the Surovikin defense line, and have been continually pushing southward toward Tokmak, to the point where they are gaining more and more fire control over critical Russian supply lines. And farther east, they are starting to bridge the Dnipro, which the Russians had assumed would stop them. They already have several bridgeheads established and will likely soon be moving heavier equipment. |
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Ukraine nor any other power can cross the minefields. Not even Russia.
You are talking about 50 years of clearing them (in peace time) at best. No; Russia will not hold crimea or the Donbass. Russian Federation will fall from north and east; territory by territory. Once their navy stops getting paid they are no more of a threat than North Korea. Their fall from the world stage provided by Putin at the expense of thousands of brave Ukrainians. |
Russia really should get to the bottom of this. It seems really suspicious how Wagner leaders died. I guess no one cares? Weren’t they Putin’s go to guys? Odd Russians are not concerned . |