Russia keeps putting more resources whereas Ukraine is developing technology to be more and more efficient at defending.
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cosmoscrazy1 day ago
+5
Not just defending. They have developed deep strike missile capabilities like the Flamingo in the most recent years and do heavy damage to critical Russian infrastructure.
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Secret_Wishbone_20091 day ago
+1
Attack is the best form of defence or something
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ennie_ly1 day ago
+23
Ukraine is not "*using Russia’s lust for territory to throw their boys into the meat grinder*" and we'd very much preferred Russia to stop doing it and f*** off.
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GravitasFailures1 day ago
+378
Was funny, Russia’s Victory Day, famous for cartoonish parades of military hardware.
Not a tank to be seen.
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Sarcastic_Crab04201 day ago
+196
They have run out of tanks, planes and boats. They are just doing zerg rushes now. Losing over 1000 a day. They are literally disappearing themselves.
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GravitasFailures1 day ago
+102
>zerg rushes
As is tradition.
Russian zergs against ~~Protoss~~ Ukrainian drones, my money is on the drones, but I almost hope they don’t stop trying.
It’s ironic, and sad, Russia is committing genocide against their non-Russian minorities by sending them into drone fire, and they’re doing this so they can conquer Ukraine and commit another genocide against Ukrainians.
Russians only want one thing, and it’s disgusting.
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Suspicious_Bicycle1 day ago
+14
"You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down." — Zapp Brannigan (from the Futurama episode "War is the H-Word").
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GravitasFailures1 day ago
+7
Zelensky: We can always make more kill bots.
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Old_Ladies1 day ago
+13
Well over 90% of Russian deaths in 2026 have been caused by drones. Since Ukraine has longer range drones than Russia does most of the Russian deaths are actually behind the front lines. Russia has a hard time with supplying their front line troops and getting troops to the front.
I believe that this war will last another couple years before Ukraine ends in a victory. It doesn't look like Russia cares that so many of their people are dying because they slowly are gaining ground at the cost of thousands of lives to gain just a small plot of land.
This war has been pretty crazy rollercoaster. At some points it looked like Ukraine was screwed and other times like the great Ukrainian counter offensive to retake Kharkiv Oblast that Ukraine was going to push out Russia. Then Ukraine was running low on many supplies like artillery shells and now artillery shells are not a problem because Ukraine builds a shit load of drones.
Also it has been interesting seeing the evolution of armored vehicles. It was very common at the start to see vehicles in direct combat against over vehicles or dropping off troops next to trench lines. Then that slowly started to change as both sides had a hard time doing armored assaults because drones were starting to get mass produced.
Then you started seeing Mad Max style vehicles with chains and plates welded on Russian vehicles. Everyone was making fun of those stupid looking vehicles but it turned out to be pretty effective as it took on average a lot more drones to stop them. Then you started seeing Ukraine copy Russia with their own Mad Max vehicles and even some other countries have started putting extra armor on top of their tanks too like Israeli Merkava tanks.
Now Russia has very few armored vehicles left while Ukraine has plenty. So Russia has changed their tactics to small fast attacks often using unarmored vehicles or even dirt bikes and even in at least one occasion horses. Meanwhile Ukraine is making a lot of unmanned vehicles for logistics and medivac or even for assaults. There was a recent video of some Russian troops surrendering to an UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle).
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Seeker-N71 day ago
+9
To be fair, the Mad Max vehicles were originally laughed at, because at the start of the war they wanted their cope cages to stop Javelins. Which didn't work.
As the war progressed and drones became more prevalent, the "upgrades" started working as you've said.
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GravitasFailures1 day ago
+16
So there’s a fundamental asymmetry here:
Russia thinks that land is more valuable than people, Ukraine uses that to charge them thousands of lives for inches of land.
Literally the exact same way Germany pushed them out of WW1, just letting them walk into machine gun fire. Almost worked for WW2 too, but Hitler refused to let his generals retreat strategically and couldn’t keep them supplied.
Red flag to a bull, they can’t help it.
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bs041 day ago
-4
Deepstate live map seems to contradict your positivism stance
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clank14011 day ago
+34
It’s weird that you recognize that the Russian draftees are essentially victims of genocide immediately after saying you hope Russia keeps doing it.
Make no mistake I want Russia to lose this war but the horrific fates of Russian draftees is not something to cheer for. Dehumanization is, bad actually.
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Sarcastic_Crab04201 day ago
+12
Nah, russia can go dissapear itself. When have they ever been good?
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Neat-Slip452013 hr ago
+1
They’ve had brilliant authors and composers. I love Tchaikovsky’s music…
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FairGeneral88041 day ago
+1
> When have they ever been good?
Do you believe the countryside minorities to have grand schemes for world domination ? You can hold the simultaneous thoughts that Ukraine is right to kill invaders *and* that these bodies aren't getting much of a voice in the general russian politics
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GravitasFailures1 day ago
+33
I think it’s horrible.
But it’s Russia, and what’s better for peace in the world is for Russia to have fewer bodies to throw at people.
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Shadowlance231 day ago
+15
America: I die for my country!
England: I die for my king!
France: I die for love!
Russia: I die!
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PartyMetal19161 day ago
+1
Jeeze, that's pretty brutal..
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Shamicide1 day ago
+20
They have the option to fight back against their state and country but choose instead to invade another.
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clank14011 day ago
+21
I think it’s naive to deny how completely these people are being stripped of their agency and humanity. I’ve seen videos of Russian penal actions against deserters or those who attempt to refuse to attack. They will live in my nightmares for as long as I live. Human beings are being treated as cattle by Russia.
I am not saying that Ukraine should not kill the invaders, I’m recognizing that it is tragic rather than “Protos destroying a Zerg rush” or whatever dehumanizing language I see used.
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SprungusDinkle1 day ago
+10
Thank you. I've been thinking this since the beginning. Russia is 100% in the wrong and deserves to lose, but the dehumanizing is not a good precedent.
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someocculthand1 day ago
+4
We can maybe shed a tear for the poor russian rapist murderers when they f*** off from Ukraine and russia has paid for reparations.
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FlyFront93951 day ago
+1
You have nightmares about the penal actions?
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FlyFront93951 day ago
+1
What do they want?
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Remus88Romulus1 day ago
+2
And people around the World says Russia will attack another country. With what? 10 000 people with axes rushing the borders of Poland? Good luck.
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AwesomeFama1 day ago
+1
To be fair, they haven't run out. They just don't have more to spare so they could throw them away willy-nilly, which is similar, but different.
The armored vehicle pushes weren't really very successful either. Not that the current infiltration tactics are really that successful either...
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groovyinutah17 hr ago
+1
Plenty more where that came from...something has got to give here. This isn't combat anymore it's just wanton slaughter.
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Excellent-Article9371 day ago
-1
Yes and the sky is pink
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Kogorashi1 day ago
+22
This was the most devastating Victory day parade they ever had to be honest.
Zero equipment, almost none foreign delegations as guests, and shortest ever Speech from Putin. At this rate that’d be less embarrassing if they fully cancelled it.
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SmoothConfection11151 day ago
+13
That’s because for Russia, their tanks fall into one of two categories:
1. Blown up in Ukraine
2. Rusted, stripped for parts, and now little more than scrap metal in some tank depot
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Gothiewasbetter1 day ago
+3
You think those Russian Generals mistresses are gonna pay for themselves?🤣
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nmards1 day ago
+23
It occurred to me earlier that as we are past the 4 year mark of the war, it’s now gone on for 2/3 as long as WW2 (from the British perspective, I’m sure some countries consider it to have started sooner I’m not trying to start an argument)
Are there any historians here who can share what the “vibe” was 4 years into WW2? Was there a sense that it would never end or had people started to look towards an eventual conclusion?
Appreciate it’s a bit like comparing apples to oranges, but would be good to have a kind of benchmark
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desertweasel1 day ago
+18
The first Big 3 conference with Churchill, Stalin and Truman where there was a whiff of victory was in Nov or Dec 1943.
The location?
Tehran
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Guyfawkes19941 day ago
+5
Looking at late 1943, it had definitely turned against the Axis by that point. The North Africa war was over, and Italy had been invaded and switched sides, albeit with a gruelling series of defence lines to break; the USSR had won Stalingrad by the beginning of the year and would be at the Ukrainian border by then with the battle of Kursk; and in the Pacific, with the combination of New Guinea, Midway and Guadalcanal, Japan’s advances were mostly stopped and the island hopping campaign could begin. On the home fronts, you’d be seeing more effective ASW against the U-boats in the North Atlantic than in previous years, while the strategic bombing campaign against the Axis definitely would have stepped up a notch with the arrival of the Eighth Air Force. It wasn’t over, but the Axis were clearly fighting a losing battle.
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nmards1 day ago
+2
Thanks so much! Interesting...of course you cannot possibly compare the two wars but it stands out just how much progress there had been in WW2 whereas this pointless war in Ukraine has basically been at a standstill for the best part of 4 years, achieving nothing
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Guyfawkes19941 day ago
+3
This war does very much have the feeling of an alternate timeline where Germany invaded Czechoslovakia and/or Poland, and then completely shit the bed, while the Western allies stood by and watched the Soviets warily. It’s an embarrassment for the invading power, possibly a fatal one, but it’s incredibly difficult (if not nearly impossible) for the invaded country to actually remove them.
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Waffle0calypse1 day ago
+143
Sunk cost fallacy. Russia has lost so much to this war and have everything to gain if they succeed. The estimated losses to their work force number in the millions; it probably looks nonsensical to their leadership to stop fighting now.
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jert31 day ago
+32
Russia's death spiral entirely now due to Putin psychology and their authoritarian qualities of their regime.
Putin's narcissim and ego will not allow for a withdraw, and their political system does not allow for Putin to be deposed, and Putin's powermongering and security efforts make removal of him by force extremely difficult.
So now, even with less than 1% chance of the invasion succeeding, it will continue until the regime collapses, for virtually no benefit to anyone.
Even just switching to defense, then securing a ceasefire with some annexed territory, would be possible with Russia's Trump card, but instead, they are wasting away until collapse.
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_pinklemonade_1 day ago
+2
Surreal to watch it play out in modern times.
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Sarcastic_Crab04201 day ago
+51
They have lost so much, even if they won today somehow, they dont have the numbers anymore to maintain such a giant landmass and they certainly dont have troops to secure the entire country so its funny cause they are losing so bad they literally can only keep slowly disappearing from existence. There's literally nothing they can do anymore. Nothing.
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Wayofchinchilla1 day ago
+17
Even if they do succeed though they still lose they've spent hundreds of billions lost millions of lives their army is going to be depleted for 50 years if they're lucky the brain drain and their plan to divide the West has resulted in the West rearming and unifying. If Leadership had brains it would be looking at this like a smoker you've taken countless years off your life but that doesn't mean you shouldn't quit.
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Remus88Romulus1 day ago
+6
Russia is lost for generations. It will take decades like you wrote before they are even back to any sort of standard living.
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Batmorous1 day ago
+2
Many have been predicting that Russia will be turned into many new independent countries its reaching that threshold. People have been hoping Ukraine will get Western Russia too along with their taken people/land. Wonder if China would move in to take some Eastern Russia land
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GravitasFailures1 day ago
+1
And this is the best exchange for Ukraine, use Russia’s lust for land to manipulate them into throwing thousands of their boys into machine gun fire and drones.
It’s their most efficient way of turning Russia’s size against them.
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xmuskorx1 day ago
+1
what exactly do the have to gain.
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cinciNattyLight1 day ago
-12
It’s the California High Speed Rail project for war.
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Routine_Bit_81841 day ago
+6
california hsr hasn't killed or wounded millions and destroyed entire villages/towns/cities and ways of life...I sort of get your point but nobody is slaughtering people over the hsr and governments won't fail if it gets completed or gets abandoned.
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SmegmaWarrior08151 day ago
+27
Is Russia celebrating the victory over the Nazis because they haven't won anything since?
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macross19841 day ago
+5
At least while Putin is desperately trying to stay alive by continuing the war that is bankrupting Russian economy.
He won't care less what happen to Russia after he is gone.
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+41
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EndOfDecadence1 day ago
+33
Nah something has to give eventually. No war goes on forever.
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P-l-Staker1 day ago
+23
The Korean war is technically still ongoing right now. There was no formal peace treaty signed by any party. Only an armistice.
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EndOfDecadence1 day ago
+27
Yeah thats a good example and the most likely one. But you'd rather call it a frozen conflict, not an active war.
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P-l-Staker1 day ago
-5
A similar outcome wouldn't be completely unlikely here. Neither side seem willing or able to concede.
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tvtowers1 day ago
+19
Why would Ukraine concede anything? They were invaded, their territory is being soiled by the presence of putin's horde of thieves and rapists, and Russia is going broke and can't continue forever
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P-l-Staker1 day ago
-12
>They were invaded, their territory is being soiled by the presence of putin's horde of thieves and rapists, and Russia is going broke and can't continue forever
That's not how war works. You either win it and gain stuff or lose it and lose stuff. There's no room for morals in the discussion.
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tvtowers1 day ago
+8
I'm talking about the moronic suggestion that Ukraine *should* concede. Russia should be happy to concede they fucked up and get lost before the economy craters the same way it did in 1998.
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P-l-Staker1 day ago
-5
>I'm talking about the moronic suggestion that Ukraine should concede.
Nobody suggested that. Check yourself, please.
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tvtowers1 day ago
+2
"Win it and gain stuff or lose it and lose stuff" might need a little explanation if it isn't a suggestion that Ukraine should concede territory
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EndOfDecadence1 day ago
+2
Yes, I agree a frozen conflict would be the most likely outcome.
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Potential-Formal86991 day ago
+7
Chinese civil war (PRC vs ROC) doesn’t even have an armistice. It’s just paused hostilities. In all seriousness, I don’t think any treaty signed by Russia without American troops on the ground will be upheld by Russia.
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P-l-Staker1 day ago
+2
Yeah, it's really hard to see either side conceding ground for peace.
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EndOfDecadence1 day ago
+4
Thats a very dumbed down version of WW1, and except for trenches I don't see a lot of similarities.
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Ylmer341 day ago
+9
He’s right though, you completely ignore the blockade of German ports which put an intense strain on the German war effort, eventually leading to mutinies and such by the end.
If anything the idea of Americans arriving did more than them actually coming, it caused Germany to make a final offensive in 1917 that was eventually stopped and after that the allies held the upper hand.
This was followed by the hundred day offensive that was highlighted the “birth” of the some of the conventional tactics we see come into use during world war 2, an offensive primarily lead by the French and English forces, who at this point had years of experience against the Germans.
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Muted-Tradition-12341 day ago
+47
>Putin has no intention of ending the war under zelensky conditions.
>And zelensky has no intentions of ending the war under putins conditions.
>Its a stalemate because no one will blink, Ergo the war goes on forever.
Putin wants to wipe the Ukrainian people & their culture wiped from existence.
Ukraine doesn't want its people or culture wiped from existence.
The way you wrote suggests there is an equivalence: there is not.
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GravitasFailures1 day ago
+33
Putin can end the war any time he wants, he just has to leave, Zelensky has no such option.
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Jopelin_Wyde1 day ago
+27
Ukraine giving up territory doesn't guarantee that the war ends.
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GravitasFailures1 day ago
+18
Firstly, I doubt that would satisfy Putin.
Secondly, again, Putin could also give up that territory today, he doesn’t even have all of it, and after all, it’s not his country.
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reluctant_deity1 day ago
+17
That would only encourage more Russian offensives.
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tvtowers1 day ago
+3
Offensives cost money, the syphilitic gnome in the Kremlin doesn't have deep pockets. The Russian spring offensive has *lost* more ground than it's gained.
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Hulkodium1 day ago
+9
So Zelensky agrees to a peace deal on Putin's terms. What garuntees does Zelensky get to prevent the war from continuing anyways?
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xarvia1 day ago
+7
Zelensky already proposed a ceasefire on current ground, but that’s off the table. Russia’s demands are for Ukraine to leave the most fortified cities of Donbass, which is basically suicide.
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daniel_22sss1 day ago
+11
Putin had to ask Zelenskyy (through Trump) to not blow up his pathetic 45-minute parade.
This whole shtick with "We're gonna defeat Ukraine any second so Zelenskyy better make some concessions fast" is just Putin's attempt to distract the public attention from that whole humiliation.
The truth is - now that Ukraine finally has an ability to do massive strikes on all parts of Russia, it gained upper hand. Ukraine can just destroy Russia's already failing economy by repeatedly bombing Russia's oil infrastructure. And Putin can't do the same to Ukraine. He can only bomb Ukraine's power stations, but Ukraine (with the help of allies) made enough preparations so their energy infrastructure can't be destroyed permanently. And Ukraine got a big loan from EU so they can't run out of money anytime soon.
In terms of drones Ukraine also got an upper hand, cause their drone production is now bigger than Russia, and they got really effective at countering russian drones.
Putin is simply running out of money, and the war is starting to lose support in Russia because of all the bullshit internet regulations.
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Under_Over_Thinker1 day ago
+8
Wrong. Putin could have stopped the war at any point.
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TheCrassDragon1 day ago
+9
Still wish they'd leaflet dropped the parade somehow lol
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OVazisten1 day ago
+3
To be fair, only Putler can not end this war. Admitting that it took all their armor reserves and 1.5 million casualties to gloriously conquer some parts of three Ukrainian counties would mean his immediate downfall. Most likely the war will only end after he is removed one way or the other.
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xmuskorx1 day ago
+3
no it does not. he can declare glorious victory tomorrow and Russian population would just go with it.
if the did not protests BEGINING of the war why would they be upset about it's end?
if there are a couple people who are loud they go to jail or out of the window. heck Putin already preventively arrested the loud ones like Girkin.
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Robbyroberts911 day ago
+2
why they should? you cant sell weapons without wars
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Correct_Simple84481 day ago
+2
This doesnt even seem like a war anymore its plain and simple ego fight dragging on
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adumbfetus1 day ago
+3
Very groundbreaking news.
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xpda1 day ago
+3
Just as Trump has no intention of ending his war, at least not before midterm elections.
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GlobuleNamed1 day ago
-3
To end this war, he needs to side with Putin and send US soldiers in Ukraine.
He will definitely wait after the midterm for that.
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Danny-Dynamita1 day ago
+1
I always find it funny when they write “Ukraine’s Zelenskiy” in the title.
Do we have more Zelenskiys?
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tnh3420 hr ago
+1
He finally says something that's not a total bullshit.
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chiefjayhawk19541 day ago
+1
Once this war is over, that's probably the end Putin.
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Super_Toot1 day ago
-7
This talk by Russia looks an attempt to weaken support for Ukraine.
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Sufficient-Diver-3271 day ago
+18
This is literally being said by the president of Ukraine.
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Super_Toot1 day ago
-12
Zelensky and I know what's up.
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Perfect-Tomato-89691 day ago
-7
It's always weird to me seeing Americans be the 1st ones to condemn a foreign power invading another when they murdered 500k Iraqi civilians. Anyone who says they hope more people die should go to the front unarmed. Just a reactionary train wreck in the comments. Talking like national socialists verbatim, you see the russians as rats. You think like hitler and pretend yourselves morally decent but openly support the bloodletting of others, never yourselves. Pathetic ignorant gullible sycophantic cowards.
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Derrickful1 day ago
+1
Iraq was really the first '51st state'. After they took the land it looks like mainstream USA. The Iraqi culture is basically gone.
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Generic_Superhero1 day ago
+1
Maaaaany American people are critical of our countries invasion of Iraq.
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maga2351 day ago
-2
Damn you’re brilliant.
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rud-x-y-z1 day ago
-5
Not until they take Odessa
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xmuskorx1 day ago
+1
you mean malaya tokmachka
Odessa may as well be on the moon
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Subject_Ice51671 day ago
-13
It has. Ukraine must leave Donbass. That's their condition.
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Generic_Superhero1 day ago
+3
Thats one of their conditions.
Putin also wants a buffer zone past the Donbas where Ukraine can't have military present. He wants Ukrains military size heavily restricted. He wants to hand pick who takes over the country. He wants other non Donna's territory that he currently doesnt control.
In short he wants the complete and utter capitulation of Ukraine to end the war and is in no condition to make those demands.
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xmuskorx1 day ago
+3
why would Ukraine leave their own land? what would prevent pupu from continuing the war after that?
this is nonsense
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Subject_Ice51671 day ago
-4
It shows Zelensky is lying. Nothing more.
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xmuskorx1 day ago
+1
I don't follow
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Subject_Ice51671 day ago
Russia wants to end the war. Their condition he cant accept. That's the truth. Zelensky is lying when he says Russia doesnt want to end the war.
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xmuskorx1 day ago
+2
Russia does not want to end the war. they want more land to use that land as staging ground to grab more land. that's the Truth.
Russia can end the war at any time by going home
where is Zelensky lying?
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Subject_Ice51671 day ago
They think they are home. Anyway, you dont hear me and spew lies. That wont do. I am done with you.
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