Costly? That’s certainly the Neocon spin. After all, they can’t deny that the UFA has suffered defeat after defeat. So, the “costly” narrative is deployed to convince the gullible Western public that sending more high tech weapons (which are being destroyed, sold on the black market, or captured in huge numbers) will eventually stop the Russians. Go investigate how the Russians are using combined arms and explain how their SMO has been “costly” in the sense the Neocons claim. Russian losses in the Donbass appear to be minimal because of their overwhelming superiority in high precision, long range artillery and missiles and how they are being used. They pulverize UFA positions using 10-11 times as much ordinance as the UFA while standing off out of range of UFA artillery. Then, when their drones reveal that the UFA position is essentially destroyed, they send in tanks and infantry to mop up. In Lisichansk, the UFA lines just broke and ran. It wasn’t cowardice; it was the rational act of good men who finally realized that they are being used as cannon fodder.
I am appalled at the number of posters here who casually treat this horror as if it’s a sporting event. The WEF and our Neocons, and their narcissistic fantasies about remaking the world according to their evil and absurd utopian ideas, are responsible for this war and the shedding of rivers of Ukrainian blood and destroying Ukraine. The young men who haven’t been fed into a meatgrinder WWI style war have fled to the West to avoid the draft. They are almost all lost to Ukraine. What will be left will be a very poor rump state with a largely elderly population. At least the “Big Guy” got his 10%, and the useless, cowardly, sociopathic Neocon/ WEFers got to play their real world version of “Call of Duty”. Of course, they will declare victory because the Russians “lost men and material at a massive rate.” It won’t be true, but the irresponsible here will repeat it.
Fortunately, Boris the Buffoon is leaving office, and the Dutch farmers are fighting the NWO. The Dutch are in a real fight for freedom, unlike the Zelensky regime and the Ukraine war.
Agree 100%
It will be quite some time before the military-industrial complex in the West will be able to build back better.
Yes, it’s terrible how they took advantage of the weak-minded Putin and manipulated him into invading Ukraine.