> Everyone talking about Russia being "already defeated" knows little of the Russian capacity for misery. This gets trotted out every time but it's a really st

> Everyone talking about Russia being "already defeated" knows little of the Russian capacity for misery. This gets trotted out every time but it's a really stupid argument. Russians may have been willing to endure extremely poor conditions to defend their homeland. They're not going to do the same to invade ukraine. And no, people are not going to suddenly believe that Ukraine is their homeland because Putin has claimed it so. This is an offensive operation. If Russia declines to extreme poverty, it will simply be unable to maintain effective logistics to the front. Which is really hard to do when the enemy has accurate long range missiles and all you have is trains.