[Drew68]

The Ukrainians are doing a good job themselves of bombing the Russians. Here is video of Ukrainians ambushing Russian tanks.

When only the losses of one side are considered newsworthy, it's easy to think the other side is winning.

In truth, Twitter is going to have a meltdown in the coming weeks. The bulk of the Ukranian army, which has been stationed on the east fighting the DPR/LPR breakaway factions since 2014, is facing total annihilation. They'll be surrounded in the Donbas kessel, cut off, and wiped out after which the Russian army will regroup and take Kiev from the south.

And all those airplanes were sending them? The Russians will crater every useable airfield in Ukraine, leaving only NATO bases from which they can operate.

[tlozo]

Russian army will regroup and take Kiev from the south.

Then what? Putin declares peace, Ukrainians stop killing Russians? Good luck with the occupation.

[Meet the New Boss]

"Winning"? I'm not claiming the Ukrainians are winning, but they are kicking the crap out of a lot of vehicle columns and killing a lot of Russians.

But driving a column down a road in Indian country is not the same thing as having control over the Indians.

But the losses the Ukrainians are inflicting on Putin's invasion force may erode the base of support Putin has among the elite in Russia and it may turn out that he ends up not being able to access the large amount of resources Russia will have to mount to "win" the war in the face of such resistance, and so perhaps a negotiated end without Putin achieving his war aims

[nbenyo]

That is expected, the next phase is aiding the insurgency. No Russian soldier will ever be safe in Ukraine.

[crz]

You kidding me? You try to explain this to these geeks and expect a decent reply?

Here is a fact for the geeks around here. Long time ago Putin said that he could not imagine the world without a Russia.
What’s that say about his mental state?
Russian forces will take the Ukraine. That is a fact, but they wont hold it. And if NATO so much as makes any attempt to insert forces into the country, Putin will use nuclear weapons. That is another fact. If it comes to that, the best hope we have is that his commanders wont follow his orders. Did the Germans follow Hitlers orders near the end of WW2? Every single one of them did until the very last dog was hung.

So Drew, have at it, Try and explain this stuff to these geeks.