• mihor@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    What exactly makes you think Russia couldn’t win?

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      1 year ago

      The same reason General Popov was dismissed then attacked by state media. The same reason Prigozhin encountered minor resistance on his march to Moscow.

      Morale is low, stockpiles are depleted and industry is decimated, partially by sanctions and partially by mobilization.

      Russia is using WWII tactics with cold war era equipment. Thousands of artillery pieces don’t mean a whole lot if you can’t put counter-battery fire on a HIMARS. Thousands of mobiks aren’t going to be effective if they don’t have modern training and equipment. Russia wasted hundreds of guided missiles on residential targets with no strategic value in the middle of a war.

      The war is already lost. The only question now is how many more Russians have to die on Ukrainian soil before Putin starts to care.

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        I don’t know where you get your info from, but morale in Russia is at an all-time high after the total defeat of Ukrainian offensive.

        And talking about ‘cold war era equipment’ is frankly silly… Do you call Ka-52s, Krasnopols, Lancets, etc. cold war era equipment? This Russian hardware has been proven the real gamechanger on the battlefield, decimating Ukrainian armored formations relentlessly. But you are right about one thing, the war has definitely been lost, though by the West.

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          total defeat of Ukrainian offensive.

          Progress has been made slow but steady by minefields. Is your Russian state tv really telling you Russia has totally defeated the Ukrainian offensive?

          Maybe stop sniffing the glue.

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            1 year ago

            Steady how? Still waiting for that ‘big break’…

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          The west hasn’t even joined the war, they’ve handed Ukraine their old spare tech and used the opportunity to upgrade their own stockpiles and done so in a manner to ensure their own security needs and combat effectiveness aren’t diminished.

          Imagine being so utterly clueless to think even a fraction of the might of western military has been directed at the war in Ukraine.

          Ukraine is pushing back Russia with western scraps and beta tested hardware.

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            1 year ago

            The Ukraine’s 72nd mechanized brigade was built with fresh NATO-trained troops and western equipment. And it failed abysmally. NATO is a joke. An utter joke.

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              Russia was supposed to have Kiev in 3 days a year ago, where are they now? Shut the fuck up moron. You’ll know when NATO joins the war because there’ll be US boots on Russian soil. Now jog on back to sucking Putin’s cock, I’m sure it’s getting cold while you’re chatting away here.