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Posted on 02/24/2026 6:47:04 AM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
KYIV, Ukraine, and MOSCOW — When the Kremlin launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the assumption in Moscow, and much of the West, was that Russian forces would take the country in a matter of days.
Instead, what the Kremlin calls a "special military operation" has become the biggest land war in Europe since World War II and has lasted longer than the Soviet army's fight against Nazi Germany. Russia's war on Ukraine is a grinding war of attrition. Ukraine has managed to hold a much larger army to minimal gains while adjusting to a life under constant siege and grief. Both countries have suffered enormous casualties.
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...or five years....or something.
Ukraine actually doesn't have to win. They just have to hold on long enough for Russia to decide that it isn't worth the effort. Ukraine has surprised almost everyone.
NPR? LOL literally nothing in that article is the truth. Not a credible source.
I posted the first two paragraphs of the article. What in those paragraphs is untrue?
Just reading the first two paragraphs that were posted, what is untrue? Did Russia expect it to take 4 years and counting? Have casualties not been high? Is it not a grind?
Putin never said he would take Kiev in a meter of days.
The very first sentence, literally. Anyone who knows Russian history and war philosophy knows Russia has never considered a war action to be a limited quick response, their doctrine has always been one of attrition. The sentence contradicts over 100 years of Russian War experience.
Also, how would NPR even know the inner workings of the Russian military plans, total garbage speculation.
Putin Boasts of Being Able to Take Kiev in 2 Weeks
https://time.com/3259699/putin-boast-kiev-2-weeks/
See post number 7.
Ukraine actually doesn’t have to win. They just have to hold on long enough for Russia to decide that it isn’t worth the effort. Ukraine has surprised almost everyone.
The operative words above being Russia. When the Russian people have had enough of Putin, he will be removed legally or not. Only then will the war end.
the Ukraine is a real life version of Monty Python’s black knight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlYrn2bXsc4
All Russia needs to do is take the rest of Donbas and then call it a victory. Wait for the political shift in Europe as it slides from left to right and the Europeans seek cheap Russian oil and gas. Russia has won—it costs more than they thought it would but, they are not America. We get sick of a war and pull out and go home. They will not and short of an economic failure, a revolution in Moscow, they are in Ukraine to stay. Much of the blame can fall on Zelenskyy. Ukraine is running on fumes now and will soon fall apart. This is a bit like the Spanish Civil war in the 1930s—a place to test new weapons and new resolves.
So did General Millie.
Get real. A TIME article making the claim “Reports emerged Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin said he could take control of Ukraine’s capital city in as little as two weeks?”
No source for the claim, no written or video evidence, just a claim. It is embarrassing how much faith you put into the lying media.
Sorry your link fails at proving anything, a hearsay claim from a media outlet does not make it a factual statement, in fact a wise person understands it makes it less likely to be true.
Read your linked article, even within the article they admit is may or may not be inaccurate, the writing is horrible and obviously written to avoid actually being accountable to the claim.
Wars never go according to plan.
The Ruskies have taken the eastern, Russian-speaking part of the Ukraine. It’s also the most rich in natural resources.
Regardless of how good of a fight, with Western-supplied arms, the Ukes put up, the Russians keep grinding them down and taking more territory.
I would have thought that Volod would have to come to his senses by now and surrendered in order to prevent more unnecessary deaths, but I guess he and the Ukes that support him have a suicidal wish to completely sacrifice the country into oblivion.
Are there any regular Russian troops fighting on their side? Or is it all North Koreans, Muslims and prisoners? Seems like Putin could keep this going for a long time with that group.
The article does not claim that he did. That has been the conclusion of just about every intelligence service that looked at it, though. It's also basic common sense given the circumstances surrounding the Battle for Antonov Airport in February 2022.
Putin has expressly blamed the west for "prolonging" the war, which is a tacit admission that it has gone on for longer than anticipated.
Barroso said he asked Putin if Russian troops had crossed into eastern Ukraine, La Repubblica reports. “That is not the question,” Putin reportedly said. “But if I wanted to, I could take Kiev in two weeks.”
The Kremlin did not deny that Putin made the statement, but insisted it was taken out of context.
“Whether these words were said or not, in my viewpoint, the quote given is taken out of context, and it had an absolutely different meaning,” Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said, Interfax reports. Ushakov blasted Barroso for making public the content of what the aide said was intended to be a private conversation.
Russia’s war with Ukraine tells me Russia is no threat to us.
This claim has been debunked multiple times.
Re-read what you quoted, nothing in there is stated as a fact, only hearsay, “reportedly” and other weasel words, you have one person making a claim against the other and no transcript or even a validating witness.
In court this would be completely dismissed.
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