| In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Zelensky’s message on Ukraine war anniversary: ‘we will defeat everyone’, Round Earther wrote: |
In 1939, the Russians expected to take Finland in a week or two but the Finns held them back for three or four months. In 2022, Putin sycophants stridently claimed that Kiev would fall in days, and here it is more than a year later, and the Ukrainians have held the Russians back and have humiliated Putin. |
Russia expected to fight the Ukraine enough to get them to negotiate (e.g, the Ukrainians would promise to stop killing ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine). Putin didn't know he would be fighting the combined efforts of NATO. The war is not being directed by Ukrainians - it's NATO. The weapons - NATO. Additional troops - NATO. The Ukrainians should have admitted they can't win and negotiated a long time ago. But they are going to keep shoving soldiers in front of the Russians until they run out of bullets - in June or earlier.
“Putin didn’t know he would be fighting the combined efforts of NATO.”
If Putin did not think the United States and NATO would object to Russia’s invading Ukraine, he is an idiot.