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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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...
Great article!
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.
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.
A few more would put a dent in it
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.
Russia took 450 square kilometers of land in May. The buffer building continues.
I think you are confusing it with the Vietnam War.
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.
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.
There’s a name for Russia’s victory. It’s called “Pyrrhic.”
It wont even slow them down.
“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.
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
But it may move us to DEFCON 2.
“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.
The Russians tried to take Kyiv on day one. Putin wanted to take all of Ukraine.
Not just the Donbas.
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.
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