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I guess, you're from US? Anyone with experience with Russians, this situations is not just believable for us, this is Russian default.

• chii 4y ago
  if this is the default, do they expect to win via attrition? I don't believe russia can out-industry the west. Perhaps they hope that the voting population gets sick of the cost, and bail out, giving russia the win.
  • bell-cot 4y ago
    "When things are bad, keep fighting and don't give up" is a pretty common and often extremely useful military mindset. From the $billions that the war is costing the west, to millions of Ukrainian refugees, to developing grim shortages of many things which Russia and Ukraine were major exporters of, to surging inflation & other economic effects, to the short attention spans of western news/hype cycles, to regular elections which most pro-Ukraine western leaders are facing in the next year or so... "Win via attrition" is probably too optimistic a phrase. But it would be pretty realistic for Russia to say "our least-bad option is to keep fighting, because our enemies' situations will deteriorate faster than our own".