• Free PalestineA
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    362 years ago

    westerners be like “I’m not a military analyst, but let me tell you how Ukraine can still win”

    • @SaddamHussein24OP
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      252 years ago

      They dont even realize that, even if Russia somehow thought they would take all Ukraine in 2 weeks and failed, they are still winning. Even if it takes them 3 years, if they achieve it theyll have won. These muppets think if you dont achieve every part of the plan exactly as was planned you automatically lost. Overdosing on copium.

      • @aworldtowin@lemmy.ml
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        We should be more hesitant to outright declare that as a win this early in everything playing out. It’s very possible this was a trap set by the US to bog down Russia and have an opportunity to expand NATO while Russia is busy. They would also love to make a move on China while Russia is bogged down in Ukraine, media is really trying to get the people along with war over Taiwan.

        Not trying to say Russia is losing here, just that we should step back and realize this could play out in 100000 different ways and many are not good for Russia long term. In 5 years things will be much clearer but until then we should speak with less certainty.

        • @SaddamHussein24OP
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          I personally thing that, as things are now, they are clearly winning, and if nothing changes, theyll probably win. Russia gains territory every day. They now control almost 1/4 of Ukraine, with all of Kherson, half of Zaporizhya, half of Donetsk, almost all of Lugansk and 1/3 of Kharkov regions. And all of this despite unprecedented western weapons supplies to Ukraine (more than 60 BILLION dollars) and Russia using minimal resources (only 200k troops). In the economic war, the victory has been crushing. The ruble is at its highest in years, despite Russia being now the most sanctioned country in the world. While in Russia inflation is staying low, in the west its skyrocketing. In Russia supermarkets are stocked, in the US there isnt even milk. I think Russia is clearly winning, and i honestly expected its economy to suffer much more. I definetely agree with you on Taiwan tho, the US may start shit there too.

          • @cfgaussian
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            The 200k number by the way is the total including the DPR and LPR militias. On Russia’s part it’s probably more like 100k. I also wonder how long it will be until we see Kherson and Zaporozhie regions form their own militias to start defending their own borders and free up a few more Russian forces.

          • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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            The ruble is at its highest in years, despite Russia being now the most sanctioned country in the world. While in Russia inflation is staying low, in the west its skyrocketing.

            This is even more important point that it is on the face value. It clearly shows the western global finance system for what it really is: a racket.

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        • @cfgaussian
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          It’s not Russia who is “bogged down” in Ukraine, it’s the collective west. The US wanted to pivot to Asia after pulling out of Afghanistan and now they are stuck having to pour in an ungodly amount of resources into the black hole that is Ukraine. To hijack and reverse their usual LOTR metaphors, we can say the Eye of Sauron is fixed on Eastern Europe at the moment and China has mostly free reign in the Pacific, as such they have been busy forging ties and security pacts with a bunch of island nations, they’ve been conducting exercises and they have been given more time to prepare. If the US does try to launch its bid with regards to Taiwan they will be essentially in a two front proxy war. They already had to delay several weapons shipments to Taiwan because it all went to Ukraine.

          In addition, it’s the west that is in deep economic trouble at the moment and only getting worse. They don’t seem to have a solution to the inflation problem and the Europeans are approaching a crisis with regards to oil and gas prices, as well as food prices and shortages. This means either the US loses some of its most important allies or it is forced to prop them up with even more support out of an already struggling US economy that has not recovered from the botched Covid response.

          The whole Ukraine gambit has backfired totally on Washington, it has not worked at all the way they hoped it would. They thought they could quickly collapse or bring to heel Russia with shock and awe sanctions, or at least involve them in a politically extremely unpopular and costly war that they would not make any progress in (relying on the heavy fortifications in the Donbass holding them off).

          Instead the Russian government is more popular and stable than ever, their economy is recovering and developing even more self-reliance, and they have already broken through Ukraine’s defenses while taking minimal casualties compared to the other side’s catastrophic losses. They also managed to disable the ability of Ukraine to mount any sort of coherent offensive action with their initial blitz in the first week or so.

          This has turned into both and economic and kinetic war of attrition that the west is losing badly, and China has been given a ton of breathing room.

          • KiG V2
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            “Hesitantly optimistic” is my final take

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    • @Godless_Nematode@lemmy.ml
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      I am a military analyst/CIA operative and you will see me on every tv show or NYTimes/WaPo opinion piece pushing this propaganda and the 'murikkkans will lap it up because there is no opposition voice to be heard.

    • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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      172 years ago

      “I’m not a military analyst, but let me tell you how Ukraine can still win”

      • Felix Steiner
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    262 years ago

    How do people like this still have a following? Facts often prove him to be a complete clown within days. The algorithm would literally still be pushing bullshit like this to followers after the fact when everyone can already see for themselves he is dead wrong.

    You’d have to be a special brand of braindead to be so desperate in appealing to authority for what to think, and such a pathetic and shallow source of authority at that.

  • @HaSch
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    There was never a question of who would win, it is a question of when. I was going to write this “fight” would be like Russia going to a restaurant and cutting through a Ukraine-shaped beefsteak, but it’s not even like that anymore. Russia goes to a restaurant and gets served Ukraine Stroganoff.

  • @KiwiProle
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    192 years ago

    If Russia is supposedly able to concentrate all of its forces on one target why does this persson think there are any Ukrainian forces left able to mobilise a counter?

    • @gun@lemmy.ml
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      Especially cause the 4th side is a river where the bridges are blown out

        • @SaddamHussein24OP
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          252 years ago

          AdamSomethings audience is completely brainwashed. One dude said “you are being too optimistic Adam, losing Severodonetsk would be a big blow. I want Ukraine to win too, thats why we must accept the facts and work to help Ukraine” and everyone dogpiled on him and called him “russian bot” and “tankie”.

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            • @supersolid_snake
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              To me it’s the opposite of depressing in that mainstream western opinion doesn’t change reality across the world. Ending western chauvinism may not be possible but perhaps ending western supremacy is

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            • KiG V2
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              Hey, by all means, push normies towards us. A contributing factor to me being an ML today was the ruthless demonization I got for the mildest recitation of plain facts laced with me pre-emptively proving I “am not by any means a supporter of the USSR but” etc.

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            • @201dberg
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              Asking themselves questions requires them to think critically for even the briefest of moments. Which is impossible because if they could the wouldn’t be Adam fans.

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    • KiG V2
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      He’s claiming that Donetsk + Luhansk is their only objective now

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        • KiG V2
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          102 years ago

          Here’s to hoping they spank the Nazis all the way to Poland 🥳

  • @Weyland
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    Is about to take*

    Last I checked: fighting is still ongoing.

    • @SaddamHussein24OP
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      True, although most of the city, including the centre, has been taken already

      • @Weyland
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        72 years ago

        Which website do you use?

        • @SaddamHussein24OP
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          142 years ago

          IntelSlavaZ on Telegram. Yesterday Ramzan Kadyrov said ukrainians were fleeing the city and today Russia said the northern half had been secured, while there was still fighting in the southern half.