Ukraine’s Top Military Leadership: We Are Starting to Win, Russia Is Starting to Lose
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What about it?
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Faster than expected by whom? If you were listening to the Western media, Ukraine was about to launch a counter-offensive and regain the lost territories; not only did that not happen, they lost even more territories.
Nothing weird about someone having cancer and surviving. The weirdness is claiming Putin's had several different cancers, Parkinson disease, leprosy and would soon die, repeatedly over the years, notably in 2014, 2020 and 2022.
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Your mom is propaganda.
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I do see a lot of of US people saying stuff like "all politicians are always corrupt". That's the thought Putin has been trying to actively cultivate in Russians' minds, because when people don't trust politicians in general, they won't come to think that they could vote in someone who is much less corrupt than Putin.
When people lose their trust in national politics ability to act in the best interest of their nation, they will get proud of being apolitical. After all, for them it's come to mean "not taking part in a corruption scheme".
Also... My impression is that a growing amount of people in USA are NOT living more comfortable lives than rural Russians. Living in an RV and having to work two jobs isn't really very different life from living in a dilapidated and crooked wooden house that's letting the wind in from several places. I don't know how common that is, but it seems to be an existant phenomenon. Those people do not live in a different comfort than people in the poorest regions of the Russia. Also, I've seen photos of large amounts of people living in kind of streetside villages consisting of camping tents. That is a kind of life that is less comfortable than anything I've seen during my travels in the Russia.
A much smaller share of US people live under such.circumstances than is the case in the Russia, but for those who do, I am absolutely able to fathom why any change is better for them than status quo! There's only one way to go from the rock bottom.
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Now who's being childish
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Drones also include the bomb seadoo things, its not just flying drones. I think sea skimming has also been a thing for 100 or so years for anti-shipping, the real change is the drastic reduction of cost.
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Ukraine publishes daily statistics about Russia's manpower losses. One would think those numbers are simply propaganda and any army would "of course" exaggerate such numbers.
But, firstly:
The numbers reported by Ukraine rise and fall hand-in-hand with the numbers given by Oryx. There is something of an almost fixed multiplier between Oryx numbers and official data provided by Ukraine. And the Oryx numbers are always published later than Ukraine publishes its own, so Ukraine cannot be just copying Oryx's numbers and multiplying them. And it's logical that Oryx shows only a fraction of the real number, because for most Russian combat losses there is no photo proof, and Oryx only counts what has photo proof.So, at least the Ukrainian numbers rise and drop without fake data added. Then the question is whether the scale of the numbers is correct, or if Ukraine intentionally inflates them with some static multiplier. Since there is data about the Russia's recruitment capacity and the whole size of the Russia's army, it's visible that by recruiting about 1000 per day they can keep their army's size constant. That shows that the losses must be around the same ballpark. And it coincides with the numbers published by Ukraine.
But yes, now that Russians mostly do not have tanks to use in their attacks, they are really using pure meat wave attacks, and that costs a LOT of men. There's a reason Putin is trying to convince Trump to force Ukraine into an armistice. Losing that many soldiers – indeed almost half a million per year! – is extremely unsustainable, no matter what image Putin is trying to give.
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I never defended russia. quit makin' shit up. also, unlike you bots, I have to sleep sometimes.
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Ukraine's not a member of NATO and i never disputed who the primary aggressor was in this war.
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They need to give it all they’ve got and go all out. Leave it all on the battlefield and give 100%. Don’t hold back and go the extra kilometer.
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You might not want to use Israel as your benchmark of "fair".
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Correct. This is also a proxy war with North Korea. Iran, too from what I recall.
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Thank you for posting a source but that article suggests that the EU surpassed the US in support because we started to withhold some support mid 2023. I guess this means my comment wasn't the most apropriately timed but I'm not opposed to having a reduced support roll from when this started.
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I can tell you straight up, the people living in RVs are not working 2 jobs in the US.
If we want to talk trailer parks, odds are they're still not working 2 jobs and if they are, they are going to have access to way more luxuries than rural Russians. Unfortunately, they're still probably not independent enough to avoid paying for things they can get for free, such as digital media.
There's not much of a comparison to be made, honestly. We have it way better in the US than they have it in Russia.
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I spent some time Sunday with a refugee from Donbass. This isn't how she experienced it.
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Ukraine’s not a member of NATO
Indeed. That's why I said maybe Ukraine should have been allowed to join NATO years ago. That might have prevented this invasion.
i never disputed who the primary aggressor was in this war
So you think Russia invaded, but then the West used this as an opportunity to harm Russia. Maybe the West wasn't interested in harming Russia for the sake of harming Russia. Maybe the West just wanted Russia to stop its invasion of Ukraine.
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I respond half a day later and you call me a bot who doesn’t sleep, but you respond within like an hour and you’re a real boy lmao
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Which is probably why they're trying to bid up Ukraine with the US using their own minerals.
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Gotta get that asylum claim through somehow.
There is a reason lots of Ukrainians are actually ran to Russia instead -
Russia invaded and i think the west didn't care until we were out of our other forever wars and we needed a new way to keep the military industrial complex afloat.
