re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.

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When you have posters in here sky screaming every day about the cost of Russia obtaining land being so high and their capabilities deteriorating, and all the while Russia took MORE land at a lower cost this year, yeah it kind of does change things.

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Right. And when that 'more' land is still less than 1% of the country, the cost is massive. The Russians could take, say, 5x that what they took in 2025 and it still wouldn't be impressive, or even that consequential. The fact that they took at a reduced 'per kilometer' isn't important and changes no narratives.

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You're implying they took more land with fewer troops, therefore saying they got more efficient in 2025 and you don't even realize i

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I'm not implying it, I'm saying it. I'm also saying they are still SO bad at it that it doesn't matter, and that minor improvement means nothing.


Vol, are you by any chance 14 years old?

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2025 was a bad year for Russia. You can’t sugarcoat it.

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And 2026 isn't off to a good start for them. Russia faces the real possibility of losing allies in Iran and Venezuela very soon.

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And when that 'more' land is still less than 1% of the country

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oh brother

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Vol, are you by any chance 14 years old?

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Are you or any of your family members by chance located in Eastern Europe?

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It literally doesn't. Russia doesn't give a frick how long it takes if they get what they want.

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Oh, this is genius.

The 1.2M people dead has no effect on the battlefield or on Russia itself.
The 10,000 tanks that they've lost.
The 20,000 armored fighting vehicles.
The 30,000 artillery pieces.
The destruction of 80 years of the hording of possibly the most sophisticated military of the 20th century.
The Navy that's losing to a country without a Navy.
The 800 airframes and a loss of a third of the Russian air force, who have largely been a non-factor on the frontlines of this conflict.
The continuing lead the Ukrainians are showing in the emerging drone technology and its application.
The billions of dollars European countries are investing in said technology
The inability to perform Combined Arms.
The complete lack of a Non-Commissioned Officer Corps.
The logistical failures of the Russian military.
The intelligence failures of the Russian military. .
The $5,000,000,000 worth of arms the US just announced they are selling to the Ukrainians.
The falling oil prices, now believed to be below the break-even point for the Russians, will have no effect on this war or the Russian economy.
The constant attacks on the oil production, refinement, transportation, and so forth doesn't matter.
The constant attacks on the Ukrainian civilian population that not only kills innocent women, children, and elderly (and men) but further steels the countries resolve to beat the Russians - meaningless.
The continued political, economic, strategic, and social isolation of the Russian state has no effect.
The continued sanctions on the Russian economy doesn't matter and won't in the future.
The continued failure of the Russians to build a halfway decent ballistic missile to be able to truly threaten Western peoples.
The loss of a massively important strategic base in Syria will have no impact on future geopolitical maneuvers.
The fact that Iran, a key strategic ally for Russia in the Middle East, is getting their teeth kicked in by the Israeli's and is begging for Russia's help, is unimportant.
The fact that Venezuela, another Russian ally who is becoming more and more isolated and possibly looking at open invasion, does not matter.
The fact that Russian arm sales have dropped to next to nothing, and possibly nothing, due to not only their failures in this conflict but also because the Russians desperately need them for themselves to stay in this war.
The fact that Russia in becoming increasingly under China's thumb and possibly a vassal state to the Chinese won't affect anyone.
The fact that the European have confiscated hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian assets and are using the interest rates to fund the economic, military, and strategic interests of the Ukrainians is completely meaningless.
The fact that the Europeans are now seriously threatening to take the principle of those assets is also meaningless.
The fact that the Russians are threatening, directly, the lives of the Belgium leadership should they take the $140B in Russian assets currently under Belgium control will have no consequences at all.
The orders of hundreds of European fighter jets for the Ukrainians, probably being paid for by those frozen Russian assets doesn't matter.
The fact that multiple countries, including a direct neighbor to Russia, Finland, have joined NATO and are working with the other members to supply Russia doesn't matter.
The fact that non-European Western countries like Japan, Australia, Canada, and others are helping the Ukraine while other countries like North Korea, China, and Iran are at least working with the Russians is irrelevant.
And lastly,
The fact that Trump and Putin seem to be largely on the same page politically and diplomatically and that this is a COMPLETE switch from the US policy of the last, oh, century or so doesn't matter.
And that there might currently be a falling out of that relationship.
The fact that Europe is now spending more and more on their own militaries as a direct result, and that MULTIPLE COUNTRIES ARE TALKING ABOUT BECOMING NUCLEAR POWERS IS TOTALLY MEANINGLESS TO EVERY MEMBER ON THIS PLANET.

None of that matters, ya'll.

VolSquatch has told us so.

DOES ANYBODY SEE WHAT I"M DEALING WITH HERE??


(Ya'll feel free to add to this list, no matter who it benefits, Russia or the Ukraine, 'cause it doesn't matter anyway....)

Leopold, Are you fricking retarded?

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2025 was a bad year for Russia.

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And it might not matter

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That was the exchange.

Yes, 2025 being bad for Russia might not matter in terms of the end result. The end result isn't decided, no matter how much you delude yourself into thinking it is.