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I disagree that it is "going reasonably well". If you look at the headlines for this search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ukrainian+counter+offensive+failure&t=br
by tharmas 3y ago
I disagree that it is "going reasonably well".
If you look at the headlines for this search:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ukrainian+counter+offensive+failure&t=brave&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ukrainian+counter+offensive+failur...
it suggests that even the US Govt is not rosy on the outcome nor is the main-stream media.
- nradov 3y agoUkraine controls more territory now than a few months ago. It takes some real spin to characterize that as a "failure". The mainstream media has never been an accurate source of information about military matters, so I don't know why you would even mention that.
- knowaveragejoe 3y agoIt was never going to be easy, and certainly not a stomping like desert storm or anything like that. I think people's expectations of a dramatic sweep of Russia's entrenchment are at issue with the reality of two near-peer conventional forces squaring off.