“After this point, if Zelensky can’t get permission to negotiate (from his U.S. State Dept. bosses and paymasters), Ukraine will lose Kharkiv (majority ethnic Russian) and Odessa (ditto”
Most of the people who have been right about this special military operation in the past, the ones who’ve said for months that the Russians were pounding the crap out of Ukraine’s army, before advancing (which looked like meeting against ‘fierce resistance’, but wasn’t), have also concluded that both Odessa and Kharkiv will be liberated by Russia and Russia will keep them in any post war negotiations. That wasn’t true at the beginning, but the Neocons just had to keep their war going, and so here we are.
Russians seeing “liberation” videos constantly on television is going to boost their morale for going all the way, at least to Kharkiv and Odessa.
You cannot discount the psychology. Russian troops rotating home from Ukraine are given heroic parades. Now, liberation videos.
“No translation needed. You can feel the emotions - Lisichansk”
2 minute video. listen to the audio. Along with rotating troops “welcome home” parades, Russians are now seeing these. This will boost the psychology to continue.
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