[ganeemead]

"Thus we arrived at a convolution situation where, despite Russia’s many obvious advantages (which in the end come down to a superior indigenous capacity to mobilize men, industrial output, and technology), it became “propaganda” to argue that Russia was going to achieve some sort of victory in Ukraine - that Ukraine would end the war having failed to re-attain its 1991 borders (Zelensky’s stated victory condition) and with the country in a wrecked state of demographic hollowing and material destruction...."

You can say that again, but that's too many big words for our zeeper-wankers here, they won't be able to grasp it.

[freeandfreezing]

superior indigenous capacity to mobilize men, industrial output, and technology

Only in the fantasies of Russian fan boys. The "industrial output" plus everything else in the Russian economy adds up to roughly the output of Texas or Italy. And that "industrial output" relies on American made machine tools, and parts from the west.

The "technology" is whatever Russia can smuggle in to the country. The ICs in the missiles and fighter planes often have US markings on them because Russia can't even make their own integrated circuits. The motors in their drones are imported, as are the subsystems used for guidance.

They even import the main components of their tank sighting systems.

Maybe Russia is good at rounding up uneducated rural Buryats and sending them, untrained, to die in Ukraine, but that's not really much of a strategy.