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What’s currently going on in Ukraine is they are slowly losing a war of attrition that eventually their allies will lose interest in funding. We don’t have to
by User23 2y ago
What’s currently going on in Ukraine is they are slowly losing a war of attrition that eventually their allies will lose interest in funding.
We don’t have to like that outcome to see that it’s inevitable and has been from the very start.
One entirely possible outcome I haven’t seen discussed much is Poland turning on the Ukrainian rump state once Russia finishes annexing the ethnic Russian east.
- aguaviva 2y agoThe current situation can only be regarded as a stalemate. In the service to which Russia is devoting 10 percent of its GDP, while Western countries are spending 1 percent. We don’t have to like that outcome to see that it’s inevitable and has been from the very start. It's not at all inevitable. Russia has lost many of its optional wars of aggression and foreign intervention, in the past. Putin will also be dead or starting to lose his marbles in a few years, and Russia's overall prospects for stability (even if there were no war at all) do not look particularly good after that.