Like Vietnam its not a matter of winning or losing. its a matter of stomach. How much stomach do you have to take out the population. The Russians can mow down every person standing. And they can do it without losing any of their own. But what is there left. I think they are hoping to have a country with people who like Russians. Kill or science those who don’t. Russians aren’t losing. They are just finding it harder than they would have wished.
“ The Russians can mow down every person standing. And they can do it without losing any of their own”
Actually, they are taking heavy casualties - the highest rate of Russian losses in any conflict since WWII. Already, in just one month, they have had more Russians killed than in all of the years of their two wars in Chechnya.
At this rate, during the second month, they will surpass the total killed in a decade in Afghanistan - which many argue was a significant factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union.