Ukraine’s Top Military Leadership: We Are Starting to Win, Russia Is Starting to Lose
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cite your sources.
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Additionally, they require a lot of rest and need to be rotated out more frequently than humans. Nazi Germany was very dependent on draft animals on WWII and the logistics were nuts.
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I honestly don't know how to read the situation. Ukraine's fought terrifically, but their status seems far less sustainable even if you discount the Trump stuff. I don't put a lot of stock in these claims that on the verge of imploding due to the stress of the war, any day now. It is possible, but mostly seems like wishful thinking.
External aid changes the situation a bit, but not ultimately that much because no Western power seems willing to directly intervene with troops. Barring that, the overall situation between the two countries feels a bit like what Shelby Foote said about the US Civil War: "the North fought that war with one hand behind its back... If there had been more Southern victories, and a lot more, the North simply would have brought that other hand out from behind its back."
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Now this is just a dim take. We are fighting a war via a proxy (Ukraine) by offering the financial, logistical, and weapon support. Hence, a Proxy War.
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Also because Putin needed a war to shore up nationalist fervor and distract from his failures and corruption. A classic play that almost always works.
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You'd expect them to closely analyze the attacks and pour a few hundred billion into countermeasures though. Not exactly the same position that Russia is in.
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The main, possibly only, glimmer of hope in the article was "assets in and outside Russia had strong evidence that Russian arms production during 2025 has flatlined and is likely to contract, because of parts and labor shortages," and Russia is drafting 100,000 fewer men than last year. That seems well short of "starting to win," unfortunately. Ukraine also appears to be losing 1/3 of their military support if what Zelensky said in the article is true. Did I miss something?
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The bot rot is real.
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I wouldn't want to be on drone duty when you have to take out a donkey
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Oh shit, this guy again.
Also for someone who's "served in the Canadian military" I'm surprised you don't know enough to look at the territorial maps that are updated constantly via drone footage and geo location data.
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I mean if you're going to do the whole "bro I'm just telling it like is" play, then actually do it.
If he drops support it's simply because he's not getting anything out it.
Dude is simple as fuck - transactional. -
Ah, yes. You clearly don't care so much you typed out a response.
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hands-down one of the most effortless things I can do.
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Yet you clearly could do less, correct?
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We had a convesation about this in the Ukraine Lemmy Community. Our suggestion was to arm a drone with a carrot, and lead the donkey (carrying all the supplies) out of the orc camp after all the orcs have been liquidated. Ukraine gets supplies, Donkey gets safety, orcs are pink mist. Everyone wins! There's zero downside.
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They've always been upset about George Soros but praise Trump letting Elon into every faucet of the government to fix the budget. I can see the budget as a civilian but Elon needs access to my IRS and Treasury department info for "reasons". Claiming he's trying to fix the budget by selling old weapons to Russia would go over just fine for republican constituents. A lot of them don't have any reason to see Russia as an enemy and many I've talked to like Russian culture a lot
️ they don't need a good reason to go with whatever leadership wants and making the libs upset is a pretty great reason for them if it doesn't immediately affect them negatively -
That's the next goal for the GOP. They already moan about how we pay more in military spending than other members, leaving NATO would be something good in their eyes. Ripping up NATO wouldn't be a bad thing to them, just another way to stick it to the "European socialists libs"
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They said this before
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You’ve had many opportunities to feel shame like this, starting with the unconditional support & complicity of the U.S. government in the genocide in Gaza…
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In Zelensky's.
