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lol Russia can not win, period.
Even if they somehow Russia wins this part of the war, they would eventually loose the gorilla part that would follow.
You can’t win a war against a determined local population under current rules of war.
Ukraine was unstable for decades. It should have followed Czechoslovakia’s example, and just separated into two prosperous stable countries.
They could have signed a deal in March 2022 and saved hundreds of thousands of lives, but they didn’t care.
This was foreseeable and inevitable. Most on this forum couldn’t see past their very poorly informed hatred of the russians, blinding them to the reality that was always there to be seen and understood.
Feel real sorry for the soldiers & their families who had no choice. Kids mostly, I’d wager.
The rest, well, not.
Reminds me of when Bush, McCain and Pelosi all looked into Putin's eyes and read his soul.
Leftists and neocons certainly have some amazing super-powers.
1/2 Zelensky’s latest admission: In a recent interview with Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun he declared that “We do not have ammunition. For us the situation in the East is not good.”
Zelensky’s admission adds credence to what the Washington Post recently reported regarding how poorly Kiev’s forces are faring in this conflict, especially its “severe ammunition shortages” that one of its sources spoke about.
Ukrainian Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko:
Kyiv’s forces are losing at least 500 fighters in the area of Bakhmut on a daily basis
2/2 Despite the neocon propaganda from some who post on FR, The Wall Street Journal detailed how badly things are faring for the Orkrainians:
Wall Street Journal
A Year Into War, Ukraine Faces Challenges Mobilizing Troops
3/23/23
“When Russia invaded in February last year, thousands of volunteers lined up outside military recruitment centers. *With many of them now dead or injured,* Ukrainian authorities are scrambling to recruit replacements, *often drafting those who have neither the desire nor the training to serve.* The result is a growing number of fighting-age men *who are attempting to evade service.* ... videos appearing to show men *being roughed up by enlistment officers* for refusing a summons. A disabled person *was drafted in western Ukraine and pronounced fit for service despite having no hands.* Another died on the front lines *within a month of mobilization after 10 days of training,* according to his relatives. ...”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-year-into-war-ukraine-faces-challenges-mobilizing-troops-64dcdc49
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
At this point, both sides, and outsiders, are pushing so much propaganda that I’m taking a wait and see attitude.
It wasn’t logical to believe that Vlad would lose a war of attrition...particularly with The Big Guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
As John Kerry-Heinz would say: DUH.
As fatigue grows and morale wanes in Ukraine, defeat is a real possibility
Or should the headline be a bit more accurate, saying: Ukraine has no ammunition and has, more or less, run out of 16 and 60yr olds to send the front lines to blown to bits by Russian munitions or massacred by the Wagner Group.
Every drop of blood is on the hands of the warmongers and NeoCons that cannot get enough war. Even though, they themselves never take up arms to fight in them.
At some point, Zelensky will board a plane and be gone. Whether he flies off in the middle of the night, in an unmarked jet, or Putin lets him leave, he’s gone. Off to Western Europe or the US to spend the millions that he has stolen. Leaving his people nothing but a mess after destroying generations of Ukrainian lives.
Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt.
You Putlims are entertaining -- I give you that much, and no more -- and your chemobrain leader will be dead within the year and Moskva will fall into anarchy, long before there is an end to this New Soviet war of aggression. And the world -- including Xi -- is fully prepared to fill the sloping slopehead Slavic void LOFL. And none of you Putlims will like the end game. So pucker up, buttercup.
Schadenfreude.
Ukraine agreeing to the terms of it’s surrender to Russia has always been the way it is destined to end.
The only other option is World War Three and global thermo- nuclear war - and no sane person wants to destroy the world to save a third world Uke dictatorship run by some prancing nancyboy in a dirty t-shirt.
We are governed by absolute idiots on both sides of the aisle who conflate wishing it were so with reality.
Perhaps it’s time to Give Peace a Chance (in Ukraine), although that thought only existed when Russia was Communist.
Ukraine is a European problem not Americas.