[carljollyrogers]

Russia does not even have a fifth of their military in Ukraine right now, they aren’t “losing”, they are being cautious because they don’t want to actually invade and occupy, their goal is simply to pressure the Ukraine government to sign a deal to be neutral.

[Grzegorz 246]

"they aren’t “losing”, they are being cautious"

Da. Russia merciful. Russia humanitarian. Russia vitctorious.

[freeandfreezing]

they don’t want to actually invade and occupy

You forgot the utter fiction tag. Why would Russia be in the middle of invading Ukraine if they didn't want to? Why would they have seized Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine in 2014 if they didn't want to occupy it?

Why are they changing signs and setting up proxy governments in places they have invaded if they don't plan on occupying them?

[Widget Jr]

#98. This is not the Russian army of WW-II or the Evil Empire in the 1980s. Russia has military commitments in the rest of Russia and logistical limits in Ukraine. For the past few months, the Russian army has a hard upper limit of deploying 200,000 soldiers in Ukraine. They are unable to deploy more. Changing that logistical reality will take years, when Russia was supposedly modernizing its military for the last decade.