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>Congratulations, you’ve shown superior strategic capability than Putin’s entire pre-war military brass. Congratulations on deluding yourself into believing he

by pydry 1y ago

>Congratulations, you’ve shown superior strategic capability than Putin’s entire pre-war military brass. Congratulations on deluding yourself into believing he's losing this war against all of the evidence I guess. >Was this written by AI? Have you used it so much that you cant distinguish it from real life any more? Try talking to some Ukrainians some time - ones that live there.

JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> he's losing this war against all of the evidence He’s not winning on the timelines his military brass originally predicted. Putin and Ukraine are in a stalemate. That takes Russia off the table as a near peer to the U.S. > Try talking to some Ukrainians some time I have. They’re not on that part of TikTok.
- wolvesechoes 1y ago
  > Putin and Ukraine are in a stalemate. That takes Russia off the table as a near peer to the U.S. Ukraine, with currently most capable and experienced military in Europe, supported by western countries, is losing. Slowly and while making Russia pay, but losing nonetheless. And if you consider demographics, it kinda lost already. Most people that escaped west won't get back, and many men that were forced to stay will leave soon after they will be allowed to. For last few decades US victories were even less clear and made against countries like Iraq and Afghanistan.
- pydry 1y ago
  >He’s not winning on the timelines his military brass originally predicted. Untrue. I remember them being asked for a deadline in a press conference in March 2022 and they said (verbatim) "it will take as long as it takes". Theyve not deviated from that position either, because Clausewitz. That "3 days to kiev" thing was General Mark Milley's prediction to congress, which was later morphed by western propaganda into "Putin's goal" and is now presumed by the terminally naive to have been the overriding goal. >Putin and Ukraine are in a stalemate If it were stalemate the body bag exchange ratios would probably be a little lower than 44:1 and the TCC probably wouldnt be kidnapping quite so many men out doing a grocery run.
  - Antibabelic 1y ago
    To be fair, I remember reading about a Russian state media accidentally posting an article written in advance for the capture of Kyiv, right around the time the war started. That was pretty much the assumption in the piece.
    - pydry 1y ago
      If it's the article im thinking of it proclaimed that all of Ukraine and all of Belarus were now part of a glorious "greater" Russia. I think if they really wanted the latter they could have made it happen by now. The leadership apparently werent saying anything at all to anyone in the first two weeks or so for opsec reasons, and that apparently led some of the state media propagandists to get a bit creative.

by pydry 1y ago

JumpCrisscross 1y ago

> he's losing this war against all of the evidence He’s not winning on the timelines his military brass originally predicted. Putin and Ukraine are in a stalemate. That takes Russia off the table as a near peer to the U.S. > Try talking to some Ukrainians some time I have. They’re not on that part of TikTok.

wolvesechoes 1y ago
> Putin and Ukraine are in a stalemate. That takes Russia off the table as a near peer to the U.S. Ukraine, with currently most capable and experienced military in Europe, supported by western countries, is losing. Slowly and while making Russia pay, but losing nonetheless. And if you consider demographics, it kinda lost already. Most people that escaped west won't get back, and many men that were forced to stay will leave soon after they will be allowed to. For last few decades US victories were even less clear and made against countries like Iraq and Afghanistan.
pydry 1y ago
>He’s not winning on the timelines his military brass originally predicted. Untrue. I remember them being asked for a deadline in a press conference in March 2022 and they said (verbatim) "it will take as long as it takes". Theyve not deviated from that position either, because Clausewitz. That "3 days to kiev" thing was General Mark Milley's prediction to congress, which was later morphed by western propaganda into "Putin's goal" and is now presumed by the terminally naive to have been the overriding goal. >Putin and Ukraine are in a stalemate If it were stalemate the body bag exchange ratios would probably be a little lower than 44:1 and the TCC probably wouldnt be kidnapping quite so many men out doing a grocery run.
- Antibabelic 1y ago
  To be fair, I remember reading about a Russian state media accidentally posting an article written in advance for the capture of Kyiv, right around the time the war started. That was pretty much the assumption in the piece.
  - pydry 1y ago
    If it's the article im thinking of it proclaimed that all of Ukraine and all of Belarus were now part of a glorious "greater" Russia. I think if they really wanted the latter they could have made it happen by now. The leadership apparently werent saying anything at all to anyone in the first two weeks or so for opsec reasons, and that apparently led some of the state media propagandists to get a bit creative.