RE: Russia and Ukraine
January 15, 2024 at 6:03 pm
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2024 at 6:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The russian fed is not the soviet union. The cost to russia has been immense. It's not about a payout to some proxy war, it's about a tragedy for the russian people. One that will impact them for decades longer no matter the ultimate course of the war from here forward, as they were already over the cliff of demographic decline. As they were already incapable of operating their own central industries without foreign labor and technical assistance. As their military was already a hallowed out chop shop for the criminal oligarchy...and on that note...nobody wants to buy their shit anymore because it clearly wouldn't perform even if they hadn't stripped it for parts.
The russian soldiers are mercs to their very core. They go into it eyes wide open about that and about the difficulties in actually getting paid. In the fullness of time, I think putin will go down like his old pal Bush the Younger. A bumbling dipshit that got lead into a deleterious war by the nose. Thinking of only how he might distract from his weakness, and the failures of his regime, by selling a war of "liberation" to his desperate people. He fucked around, and found out. He's as incompetent as any of them.
@ShinyCrystals
All ukraine has to do to win is to continue to exist. If russia magicked up some way to continue this war for a thousand more years...that would be a thousand more years of russia losing this war. The locals have an advantage in that they can win their territory back on the battlefield or in the bedroom.
The russian soldiers are mercs to their very core. They go into it eyes wide open about that and about the difficulties in actually getting paid. In the fullness of time, I think putin will go down like his old pal Bush the Younger. A bumbling dipshit that got lead into a deleterious war by the nose. Thinking of only how he might distract from his weakness, and the failures of his regime, by selling a war of "liberation" to his desperate people. He fucked around, and found out. He's as incompetent as any of them.
@ShinyCrystals
All ukraine has to do to win is to continue to exist. If russia magicked up some way to continue this war for a thousand more years...that would be a thousand more years of russia losing this war. The locals have an advantage in that they can win their territory back on the battlefield or in the bedroom.
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