“13 months”
It was supposed to be over in ten days.
Putin hoped it would. They went for a decapitation strike early on, which failed. The Azov regime held on, and that allowed time for NATO to bring their resources to bear. So now Russia needs to fight a long war, potentially against NATO itself, so they have been gearing up for that.
And they will do it.
It would have been over in 13 hours without your hero Biden piling 500 Billion on national debt to send to Ukraine.
You idiot neocons learned nothing from Vietnam fiasco.
Learned nothing again from Iraq fiasco. Learned nothing from Afghan fiasco either. And you will learn nothing from Ukraine fiasco.
We were in Iraq for years.
If the goal is to completely destroy everything, both Russia and the US have the firepower to wipe countries off the map.
Russia never wanted to do that.
They wanted to annex the Donbass region. Ukraine killed 14,000 of its own people there, broke the Minsk Accord, and overthrew a duly elected leader to install the puppet Zelensky, all at the behest of the US.
Why do people think Zelensky is so arrogant in demanding support from us? He’s fighting a proxy war with Russia on our behalf.
WE started this war, not Russia.
WE are the warmonger in this conflict, not Russia.
WE are the ones who quashed peace talks in April of last year, not Russia.
I have lost all faith in our government and yet again, the media is pushing lies.
War as a study is fascinating.
Your "own the Russians" rhetoric - "it was supposed to be over in ten days" - means nothing in an arena where shells, bullets, and bombs, not postmodern irony, determine the outcome.
The Soviet war against Germany was a lot closer to over in 1941, and again in 1942, than the Russian war against Ukraine.
The German could SEE THE KREMLIN from forward positions in December 1941. Imagine the Twitter memes on THAT day!
But
Only raising the Red flag over the Reichstag turned out to be important.