Russia and Ukraine

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

It also makes sense when you realize that if we're living in the upside down where russian -can- win..it's still costly for them.  Turns out, for example, that ukraines casualty trackers aren;t far off the mark - according to death benefits publicly announced by russia.

That's why Russia will win; they will pay whatever price in men and/or materials that it will take.  Putin is in no hurry.  The last I heard is that Ukraine is beginning to suffer heavy causalities; of course, they want more weapons.

You seem to think Russia’s resources (and Putin’s political power) are infinite. They are not.

Nudger has asked you to consider this war in light of US involvement in Vietnam. Russia has, in just seven months, lost more combat troops than the US did in Vietnam in twenty years. Russia is sending conscripts to the front lines with no military training. Russia is seeing the largest mass exodus of its citizens in more than a century. Putin’s own people are calling on him to resign. The war has caused global inflation and global food shortages, which are biting Russian citizens as hard - or harder - as anyone else. 

You REALLY believe Russia is going to continue this indefinitely, no matter what?

Boru