(7 hours ago)Deesse23 Wrote: Ukraine cant keep fighting without support from its allies?
It's almost as if he hasn't read any history. Both America and the USSR got thrown out of Afghanistan by tribesmen with minimal, and covert, outside support. Such a situation would certainly obtain given that the border with Poland (a state strongly hostile to Russia) is dense swamp. He's apparently never heard of the Ho Chi Minh trail, either.
Aside from that, Ukraine now has a large body of trained warriors. Those willing to continue their resistance will be very hard to pry out of the Pripet or the Carpathian foothills in the west.
In short, Ukraine might lose the field war, but Russia will almost certainly lose the overall war. Countering insurgencies not only requires large outlays of money, but also a willingness to work with the local population. The obvious corollary is that if the local population won't work with you, your counterinsurgency is doomed.
Peace at gunpoint is rarely a successful strategy.
