[Ancesthntr]

So now they have lost 500,000 men in their 20s and 30s, killing their population in the future, their country has been thoroughly destroyed and the Russians are likely to keep much more of their country than in this peace deal of 2 1/2 years ago. Sometimes you make a strategic retreat to be able to survive to fight another day, and be far better prepared when it happens.

[OldHarbor]

Oligarchs are doing well, fighting hard for Ukraine, all the while getting richer.

Hundreds of thousands dead. Hundreds of thousands, maimed, crippled, shattered. Fathers, brothers, sons, uncles, nephews, the neighbor, dead so bastards like Pedo Joe Biden and his coke head son can get rich off of Ukraine.

[adorno]

Sometimes you make a strategic retreat to be able to survive to fight another day, and be far better prepared when it happens.

A strategic retreat with the Russians means a big win for them. And that retreat would lead to more requests for strategic retreats. A retreat is equivalent to a victory as far as the Russians are concerned, And that victory is always turned into more encouragement for aggression; they 've proven that time and time again. There are lessons to be learned from this and we haven't learned them very well.