Simple Math...unless God intervenes...but in your world view David and Goliath is a fairytale
Except its not. This isn't a straight fight between Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine is backed by the West and countries allied to the west, the richest and militarily most advanced block of nations in the world.
While it's clear Russia has a manpower advantage and a very considerable advantage in military equipment being the inheritor of the Soviet Union, the second advantage is finite and Russia's military production capacity is absolutely dwarfed by the Wests potential military production capacity. Can military production capacity overcome a manpower advantage, I don't know but again neither do the Vatniks/Tankies/Zbots.
Its also clear at this point Russia's military while having massive capability in area's such as artillery has proven itself technically inferior to the western military technoology and when it comes to battlefield strategy and tactics (and also acknowledging they have shown some signs of adaption over the course of the war), they have proven to be by and large mostly utterly incompetent, willing to use little more than brute force to achieve marginal gains.
Ask yourself this, why has Putin constrained Russia's military effort by not going to full mobilization?
The answer is that even Putin believes he has limits in how much he can push Russia, how much he can hide the dead bodies coming homing, how much Russia is willing to sacrifice for a cause very few in Russia cares for. He has advantages in how he can suppress and crack down on dissent but so did the Tsar of Russia.
and if Snark can recognize it and you don't, youre in more trouble than you think...
You don't even recognize your pushing Russia propaganda. Do I know if Ukraine can win? No I do not. But neither do you know that Ukraine can't win. This isn't an all out fight for survival that World War 2 was to Russia, but a campaign of military conquest and Russia has lost them before, see the Soviet Polish War of 1918-1921 or the Soviet Unions occupation of Afghanistan. But I do know if everyone thinks Russia can't be beaten and why try is the prevailing attitude then simple minded and self serving politicians will play up to that and that has very real and deadly consequences for Ukraine.. See the MAGA Republican Quisling in congress, fucking tools of the Kremlin.
@Stav,
Russia is winning the territory battle. It has been ages since Ukraine gained ground.
Putin just has more men and he is recruiting mercenaries as well.
Putin is happy to sacrifice 3 Russians for one Ukranian.How long was the western front stagnant in World War I before the Allies prevailed? The military situation for Ukraine at present is difficult but does not mean they are going to be beaten. But they will be if they are not sent military aid. Most of Ukraine's present difficulties can be attributed to a lack of support from the west not an exhaustion of manpower or lack of will to fight.
As I said before Putin has limits. Just because he's a dictator doesn't mean he can keep throwing away Russian lives without consequence. His regime was already shaken once by the Wagner mutiny. He was clearly reluctant to move to war economy in the past and now to move to full mobilization because he knows Russia can't support this war indefinitely. He's bet the farm on the west losing interest or throwing Ukraine to the wolves. AKA that people in the West abandon critical thinking like say Draad and Plum do and give into hysteria, OMG Russia is invincible or Russia will nuke us all.
After all if Russia is so all powerful...why did their energy blackmail of the west fail. Why have they been unable to knock out Ukraine's energy grid this year. Why has Ukraine successfully been able to maintain a maritime corridor for ships to be able to enter and leave Ukrainian ports. I mean these where all major objectives of Russia in the first 2 years of the war. Why are the "Russia too stronk" guys quiet on these failures?
I think NATO should get involved because Putin is claiming that the
reason he is invading Ukraine is because of NATO expansion. (in
addition to the claim about Nazis in Ukraine).
If Putin's quarrel is with NATO, then NATO should get involved. Putin is now Hitler. The battle with Hitler was inevitable, the longer that countries left it- the stronger the Nazi's becameNATO doesn't even need to get directly involved. Just give Ukraine everything it needs to turf Russia out.
And yes the West need to realize allowing Putin a victory now will have just coming back for more. Russia likely used a false flag operation to start the second Chechen war, it attacked and took over part of Georgia, its attacked and taken over parts of Ukraine twice, its carried out assassinations with chemical warfare agents in western countries, its allowed cyber attacks from its territory on western countries, its violated the air and sea space of western countries dozens of times, its practically taken over Belorussia through a coercive political union (that everyone on here seems oblivious too). It's consistently broken internationally treaties its agreed too. Its a damn Mafia state, but the appeasers here think Putin will honor some sort of peace treaty with Ukraine and won't just break it at the first opportunity ...fuck off please...seriously...taking about naive.
And naive to what Russia is and will do to occupied Ukraine.
NE-FUCKEN-GOTIATEGo to Bucha and say that.