[kiryandil]

A world government tyranny with top-down leadership and a state-controlled propaganda machine can create an illusion of a country that's being beaten bloody, with thousands of battle deaths, as actually "winning" a war that it's losing bigtime, In this case, Ukraine, which just lost its largest remaining refinery in Kremenchuk.

fixed it.

[Dick Vomer]

A government tyranny with top-down leadership and a state-controlled propaganda machine can create an illusion of a powerful military force despite the fact that in other ways the country is a third-world country with a corrupt leadership that rules through propaganda, fear, and intimidation.

GEE, that sounds like the democrat/RINO/deep state United States' playbook.

Especially when you think of what happened to us in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and look at how Chicago, now Buffalo, Los Angeles, NYC, Detroit, Newark have descended into 3rd world crime ridden enclaves of the rich surrounded by the proles with guns....

[Rdct29]

I couldn’t tell if he was describing Russia or Ukraine in the first paragraph. He could have easily been talking about America after Joke Biden is finished in a few years. Joke has the reverse Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to excrement.

[pierrem15]

If Ukraine is losing, why is the area occupied by Russia diminishing on a daily basis?

The battle in the Donbas has settled into an artillery duel where the Russians assault deeply entrenched Ukrainian positions. It's almost like WWI, so I'm sure casualties are very high on both sides, but since the Ukrainians are defending, probably significantly higher for the Russians. Meanwhile, because it began mobilizing when the war started, Ukraine now has 1 million men under arms.

If the Russians had any brains, they'd propose a settlement where they retreat to the Feb. 23rd lines, and ask for recognition of the Crimea annexation and annexing the parts of Donbas they already occupied and call that victory.