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Ukraine’s Drone Attack on Russia’s Bomber Fleet Won’t Win the War
National Security Journal ^ | 6/2/2025 | Andrew Latham

Posted on 06/03/2025 6:10:16 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111

While Spiderweb played out on Telegram and television, Russian forces continued to advance – slowly, methodically, and without spectacle. Around Chasiv Yar, in the ruins of Avdiivka, and along the land bridge to Crimea, Moscow is doing the work that wins wars. It’s pushing lines. It’s holding ground. It’s breaking down Ukrainian defenses by weight of numbers, firepower, and time. That kind of warfare doesn’t trend on social media, but it changes maps.

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Bottom line: Russia is winning. One drone strike that took 18 months to plan is not a victory. Yes, bad damage was done, but it won't change the facts on ground.
1 posted on 06/03/2025 6:10:16 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
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To: whyilovetexas111
Bottom line: Russia is winning.

Capturing 20% of Ukraine while having their navy and air force destroyed.

No one expected Ukraine to hold off the Russians.

If you call this winning...

2 posted on 06/03/2025 6:14:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: whyilovetexas111

Great article!


3 posted on 06/03/2025 6:19:22 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Yes, Russia was always going to win. If there is no peace agreement because the EU entices Zelensky to keep fighting then they will duke it out to a predictable end.


4 posted on 06/03/2025 6:19:49 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Russia is advancing at a snail’s pace while paying an unsustainable price. Ukraine has been resisting Russia for 3 1/2 years and there are no signs that it is about to buckle. This is not winning.


5 posted on 06/03/2025 6:22:07 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: whyilovetexas111

A few more would put a dent in it


6 posted on 06/03/2025 6:22:50 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: whyilovetexas111
The damage, in terms of bombers attrited was somewhere between the annoying and the disturbing. It fell far short of the advertised goals, thankfully because we could be looking at radioactive smoking craters if it had been as successful as originally claimed.

In the videos we keep seeing the words "fail safe." Now I don't pretend to know the video editors' intent, but I hope everyone reviews the outcome of the movie "failsafe." To atone for an inability to recall a nuclear strike against Moscow, the US President nuked NY city appealing to the example of the Sacrifice of Abraham.

7 posted on 06/03/2025 6:22:51 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: MinorityRepublican
No one expected Ukraine to hold off the Russians.

Ukraine didn't do this alone, not at all. If it weren't for donations of vehicles, ammunition, logistical support and I suspect, direct assistance by military "advisors", surveillance and intel, Ukraine would be in a lot worse position that it is now.

Never forget that Joe Biden's staff committed the US and other nations to a protracted proxy war with Russia so that they could profit off the military sales and money laundering.

It's time to wrap up the US involvement in this war and get on to the business of peace in whatever form it will take.
8 posted on 06/03/2025 6:23:00 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Russia took 450 square kilometers of land in May. The buffer building continues.


9 posted on 06/03/2025 6:25:46 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I think you are confusing it with the Vietnam War.


10 posted on 06/03/2025 6:26:47 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: The Louiswu
It's time to wrap up the US involvement in this war and get on to the business of peace in whatever form it will take.

Trump gave Putin an opportunity to end the war. In fact, Trump recommended a ceasefire in place by Easter. Putin didn't accept the offer, instead he was stringing Trump along.

11 posted on 06/03/2025 6:26:56 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: SaxxonWoods

It is not a buffer building, it is how Genghis Khan fights as contrary to Petraeus.
This small gains result in Ukrainian losses they can’t replace. Once they are done everything will be Russian.


12 posted on 06/03/2025 6:29:11 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: whyilovetexas111

There’s a name for Russia’s victory. It’s called “Pyrrhic.”


13 posted on 06/03/2025 6:30:00 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: whyilovetexas111

It wont even slow them down.


14 posted on 06/03/2025 6:34:00 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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“No one expected Ukraine to hold off the Russians.”

The ukes are not holding off the Russians. The USA and NATO in a proxy war are holding off the Russians. At least get it right. If the USA withdraws they crumble in days if not hours.


15 posted on 06/03/2025 6:34:06 AM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: whyilovetexas111

Sure they are, a strike deep inside your territory looks like winning 21-30% interest rates(if you can get one and afford it), 11-20% inflation…

Winning


16 posted on 06/03/2025 6:40:10 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: whyilovetexas111
"Ukraine’s Drone Attack on Russia’s Bomber Fleet Won’t Win the War"

But it may move us to DEFCON 2.

17 posted on 06/03/2025 6:46:41 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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“Russia is advancing at a snail’s pace while paying an unsustainable price.”

Ukraine is experiencing demographic collapse. It will take generations to recover, if it ever does.

It would have been so much better if Zelensky had ceded those two provinces to the Russians, and some think he was willing to do so early on, but was headed off by NATO and the CIA.


18 posted on 06/03/2025 6:48:33 AM PDT by odawg
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It would have been so much better if Zelensky had ceded those two provinces to the Russians.

The Russians tried to take Kyiv on day one. Putin wanted to take all of Ukraine.

Not just the Donbas.

19 posted on 06/03/2025 6:51:19 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: odawg

The Western media is lying [what’s new?] about the Ukrainian losses in order to keep the war going.

The zeepers believe the media lies.


20 posted on 06/03/2025 6:51:21 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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