It seems like you have no understanding of this war.
Are you seriously swallowing this as a war winning strategy from the Russians:
1) Step 1 - Give up 100 miles around Kharkiv
2) Step 2 Gain 50 miles in the Donbass
3) Step 3 - ????
4) Step 4 - Ukraine surrenders, despite having 90% of their territory and army intact
“It seems like you have no understanding of this war.”
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I can’t help you, if you’re idiotic.
Beyond the immediate conditions, consider the outcome if we are perceived by the world as losing this war. And, we don’t have to lose big to lose.
Let’s say at the end of the year, we are in roughly the same spot militarily, with no win in sight. We have built this crisis on the presumption we are going to ‘defeat’ the Russians. If we do not, the world and NATO will blame us.