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I hope nobody here suffers the illusion that the point of this “aid” is anything other than to prolong the war and increase the bloodshed. Ukraine can not and
by rainworld 5y ago
I hope nobody here suffers the illusion that the point of this “aid” is anything other than to prolong the war and increase the bloodshed. Ukraine can not and will not win this war. The longer this goes on the harder cities will be hit and civilian casualties will go up dramatically.
Western leaders are perfectly aware of that, they depend on it.
- s_dev 5y agoThe article doesn't refer to it as aid. It refers to it as military gear. Ultimately Russia is the initial aggressor here so they're the ones who initiated and are prolonging the war. Russia cannot win -- even if they take Ukraine what's the end game? Never trade with the West again?
- rainworld 5y agoCold War 2 is here, no matter when and how this war ends.
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoUnless Russian army turns around, drives back, and stops at the Red Square. But there are slim chances to that.
- ceejayoz 5y agoUkraine likely cannot win the initial conventional war. As the US learned over the past two decades, that’s not the end of the war.
- rainworld 5y agoThe idea of an Ukrainian insurgency is pure cope and only serves to prolong this war. Ukraine's strategic position is untenable, capitulation or complete defeat is a matter of weeks. And once again Western audiences will be dumbfounded, and they will learn nothing from it.
- ceejayoz 5y agoThey overthrew their own government in 2014. The idea that the Ukranians will just be like "welp, we lost, we're Russian now" seems... cope-y.
- rainworld 5y agohttps://russia-insider.com/en/politics/stratfor-chiefs-most-blatant-coup-history-interview-translated-full/ri2561 https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/stratfor-chiefs-most-... That won't happen again.
- ceejayoz 5y agoDid you, uh, look at the other headlines on that site? "Three Cultures God Destroyed Because of Homosexual Sex" "Russian Prophecies of Antichrist & End Times - "Salvation of the World is from Russia" by RF Staff" Yikes.
- rainworld 5y agoWho cares. I’m perfectly sorry that the New York Times would never publish something so sensible as this translation of an interview with the Stratfor head from a liberal Russian broadsheet, but I can assure you that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the translation.
- dimitar 5y agoAccording to Soviet military doctrine Putin can't fulfil the objectives he set for this war. Defeating an entrenched enemy requires 3-5x advantage in manpower and materiel and Russia staged less than what Ukraine currently has. The Ukrainian armed forces have retreated to the defendable cities and will counter attack and return occupied land after defeating the Russian attacks. On top of that the attacks are in 3 directions, depriving them from any local advantage. Chances are Ukraine will win this war, unless Russia stages half a million addional soldiers and the respective gear. I don't think the regime has the support to do something like that, and not for an agressive war against Ukraine. All while Ukraine increases its manpower quickly by calling reservists and volunteers who are already near the battle.
- rainworld 5y agohttps://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/03/02/putin-not-crazy-russian-invasion-not-failing/ https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2022/03/02/putin-not-crazy-russ...