The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large plethora of military resources?

PS: I realize there are many casualties on both sides and I am not trying to downplay the suffering, but I am curious as to how it is going for Ukraine. Right now I am hearing ever louder calls of Russia winning, those have existed forever, but they seem to have grown louder now, so I was wondering what you thought about it. Also, I am somewhat concerned of allowing a dictatorship to just erase at it’s convenience a free and democratic country.

  • Krause [he/him]
    -27•6 months ago

    to fully take over Ukraine

    This was never Russia’s goal, you can’t quote a single Russian official stating that this was the objective of the SMO.

    Ukraine’s goal was to stop Russia from wiping them off of the map

    No, Ukraine’s goal was to “liberate” Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea and return to their 1991 borders.

    https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/ukraine-will-liberate-crimea-by-military-means-danilov/

    https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-fight-until-last-liberated-005810749.html

    https://tvpworld.com/74421963/ukraine-is-fighting-to-restore-its-1991-borders-fm

    They’ve failed and will never reach this goal.

    So I may sound like a doomer, but it’s not looking good for the good guys

    It is, you’re just not on the side of the good guys : )

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
      -2•6 months ago

      Pretty funny how you can provide an explanation backed by references and then get mass downvotes because libs still have problems engaging with reality after a year and a half of being wrong about absolutely everything.

    • gullible
      -12•6 months ago

      I wish I didn’t have to individually block lemmygrad accounts- it’s my only issue with kbin.social. Still love you, Ernest.

      • @CannotSleep420English
        9•6 months ago

        You are really living up to your username.

        • gullible
          -15•6 months ago

          I’m positive that this comment will help me find more users who stray from your echo chamber. Keep ‘em coming.

          • @MeowZedong
            10•6 months ago

            The people straying from the “echo chamber” aren’t the ones blocking others for dissent. Sounds like you’re projecting.

            • gullible
              -14•6 months ago

              I’m open to new political opinions, just not regressing through yours.

              • @MeowZedong
                8•6 months ago

                I completely understand blocking or ignoring those who engage you in bad faith, but when someone disagrees with you and also engages in a discussion in good faith, you are merely silencing voices of dissent by blocking them.

                How is that approach not creating an echo chamber? It seems hypocritical to label spaces that welcome good faith discourse “echo chambers” while creating your own.