re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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gaining combat experience against top western weaponry, and has a dominant negotiating position with the EU. IDK what this failure is?

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Gaining experience is negated when you get blown the frick up and are not able to use the experience gained.

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negotiating position

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That train has left the station for the foreseeable future.

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Russia already has the viable economic regions of Ukraine

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This isn't the 1800s. Kiev produces the largest amount of GDP in the country.

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gaining combat experience against top western weaponry

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Which has seemingly had no effect on their doctrine.

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has a dominant negotiating position with the EU. IDK what this failure is?

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They do not have a dominant position at the moment. If their security concerns were that they didn't want a NATO country on their border, with their actions they extended that border by several hundred miles. The EU has already made a commitment to move end its reliance on Russian gas by 2030, which is no small feat. Russian access to the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea are now at the behest of NATO powers. Russia is effectively hemmed in on its Western frontier, which is a far worse position. In addition, Kazakhstan is attempting to move further away from Russia's orbit, because aligning with Russia long-term doesn't have the strongest prospects. You aren't thinking things through. Their geopolitical situation is far worse than it was before the war.

I agree they gained experience, in just how poorly equipped and prepared the Russian army actually is and how incompetent their officers are.

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Their geopolitical situation is far worse than it was before the war.

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It’s amazing that Russians don’t see how isolated and hated they have become over this. Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Far Eastern Russia were big tourist destinations.

Foreign investment was bustling. Interest in Russian society was at an all-time high.

Then Putin went off the rails. One man. Insane.

Europe wussed out in 2014 or else none of this would be happening in 2022

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That mobilization is mostly complete and Ukraine supposedly has over 1,000,000 troops ready for combat now

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If they have that many troops backed up by Western weaponry then if this war isn’t wrapped up in a week it means that either Ukrainian troops are garbage or Russian troops are some bad motherfrickers.

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40,000-80,000 dead

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Those are May numbers

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Also earth to y’all, the fall of Kiev came directly from CNN and US generals.

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Amen. It’s good to remember just what Zelensky risked when he remained in Kiev, with his family, while the Russian army poured across two international borders toward Kiev in a seek and destroy mission.

Thank you for saluting his courage.

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If they have that many troops backed up by Western weaponry then if this war isn’t wrapped up in a week it means that either Ukrainian troops are garbage or Russian troops are some bad motherfrickers.

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It’s terrain that is the limiting factor in the south. They can only squeeze so many troops between the Inhulets river and the Dnieper. Also they are still waiting on more ammo for the western weapons. They have only received enough shells for two to four weeks of heavy fighting. They have less than a week’s worth of ammunition for the Himars and only 11 or 12 Migs have been fitted with HARMs for wild weasel missions and they have less than two hundred HARMs missiles to use. That’s apparently enough for the southern offensive but a drive to retake the east is being planned for after the Rasputitsia if they get enough ammo for the western weapons .

ETA: Ukraine is also launching a slow a methodical counteroffensive and are trying to not to destroy their own coties if they can help it.