Cult Icon Posted January 8 Posted January 8 Trump changed his absurd "end the war in 24 hours" claim to "end the war in 6 months..." This whole Ukrainian border inclusion into empty farmland since the start has been mostly a PR stunt rather than something with military significance. It has been aimed at impressing the "stupid americans and europeans" who don't understand military maps. I saw that ABC news & UK telegraph is using 'Kursk' as a talking point to conceal the fact that Ukrainians are losing ground everyday in the East/South while committing sizable forces in Kursk. Quote
SympathysSilhouette Posted January 9 Posted January 9 I'm not sure Russia is winning, even if Ukraine might be incapable of pushing them out of the country. Russia gained around 3800 square kilometers of territory this past year. That might seem like a lot, but that translates to around 0.6% of the Ukrainian landmass. Ukraine is a big country. Certainly by European standards. Around 93% of the land mass of France. The status quo now seems a de facto stalemate, with very slow marginal gains made by Russia. At a huge economic cost. The forecast for their economy beyond 2025 is not great and this isn't just the opinion of biased Western commentators. Quote
Cult Icon Posted January 9 Posted January 9 6 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said: I'm not sure Russia is winning, even if Ukraine might be incapable of pushing them out of the country. Russia gained around 3800 square kilometers of territory this past year. That might seem like a lot, but that translates to around 0.6% of the Ukrainian landmass. Ukraine is a big country. Certainly by European standards. Around 93% of the land mass of France. The status quo now seems a de facto stalemate, with very slow marginal gains made by Russia. At a huge economic cost. The forecast for their economy beyond 2025 is not great and this isn't just the opinion of biased Western commentators. Russia is treating this conflict as a side-war like the US war on terror (5% of GDP), this is a big factor to why they are maintaining continuous lower intensity pressure. As far as economics go they quickly circumvented the sanctions, integrated with China and other non-western states, and inflicted a lot of damage to European economies. The War has costed them some blood and treasure but very little compared to what it cost Ukraine and NATO. This is not a stalemate, the war was lost by NATO in 2022. NATO has been de-fanged by Russia, losing hundreds of billions of aid money & dollar value of armaments to Ukraine. Worse, NATO and the US exhausted their ammunition supply while would take many years, some estimates are 1-2 decades to recover. The whole world knows that Western weapons, tactics, and training are average and don't present a world-beating threat. Trump said that Ukrainian government manipulated the West into the war; this is correct. This war shows that the US-UK NATO is good only far spamming propaganda rather than military results. They should have thrown the Russians out long ago. This shows how stupid Americans and Europeans are. Ukraine is in permanent ruins with no economic future lost more than 10 million people, and the Russians control most of the annexed pro-Russian provinces. Now Ukraine- US are trying to negotiate their surrender. Quote
Cult Icon Posted January 23 Posted January 23 numerous factual errors and delusional thinking in this one LOL Starting from the claim that Russia lost 60,000,000 dead in WW2 ... Quote
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