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Ukraine is at great risk of its front lines collapsing (www.politico.eu)

submitted 1 year ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

leaving the Kremlin free to revive the conflict at a future time of its choosing.

I keep seeing this, and yet I have not ever had anyone explain to me why the fuck Russia would revive the conflict on a future date unless the west pulled some shit again. It's not as if the end of the conflict won't allow the west to rearm and prepare for war again. Why will time only benefit Russia here?

“Don’t believe the hype about them just throwing troops into the meat grinder to be slaughtered,” he added. “They do that too, of course — maximizing even more the impact of their superior numbers — but they also learn and refine.”

Is this ... holy shit. The war situation has gotten so bad, they are now toning down the Orientalism.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

These mongolian hordes are capable of reason!

Hey its progress at least.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bigger question here is why they think Russia would agree to any sort of a freeze when they're clearly winning. Russia doesn't need time to build up and regroup, the west does.

[–] Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The impact of those sanctions are going to kick in any day now, just you wait.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Kicking in pretty hard in Europe from what I saw.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 year ago

Russia would revive the conflict because western libs project all of their own faults onto the enemy of the day.

[–] Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago

I keep seeing this, and yet I have not ever had anyone explain to me why the fuck Russia would revive the conflict on a future date unless the west pulled some shit again.

Because their basic understanding of the war is that Russians are bloodthirsty subhumans that started the war entirely unprovoked because they just couldn't resist invading a country for fun/they need more land (you know, as the largest country in the world). It is a pretty commonly cited refrain that as soon as this war is over, Russia is going to invade some other european country.

They have absolutely zero understanding of why the war is happening to begin with. So they just assume Russia loves war just for the sake of it.