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To: whitney69

“...until the Ukraine will give up because they are losing the worth they have for nothing but dirt in the battlefield”

Ah, but there is where your analysis is foundering, based on a bad assumption. You assume that Ukraine will eventually “give up” if they suffer too many losses, or loss of infrastructure, or if they are not making progress, etc. But that is a miscalculation, because Ukraine is a country in an existential war for survival. Countries in that situation can’t be easily made to “give up” just by hammering them over and over. You’ll no more get them to surrender that way than you would get a father would stop fighting to save their child just because you keep hitting the father in the face. It’s just not likely to work.

And Russia may be making the same miscalculation, but in their case, the results of that miscalculation will not simply be academic.


221 posted on 10/12/2022 2:47:16 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

“You assume that Ukraine will eventually “give up” if they suffer too many losses, or loss of infrastructure, or if they are not making progress, etc.”

Now that Putin has decided to open fire behind the lines determining he can’t win fast enough the way he is going, it changes the entire level of the war. When their major cities run out of food, clean water, medical capacity, and the ability to survive you mention, it will end. And that will happen when the Ukraines determine the losses are not worth it when the kids they are trying to give their heritage to are deceased or dying rapidly at a number they understand. Right now they have all those things needed to get by. But that’s the product of war. Time will tell.

wy69


227 posted on 10/12/2022 3:07:24 PM PDT by whitney69 (quantity)
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