c_v,
It's almost as if you're suggesting that the Russians aren't smart, that it's their munitions and supplies that are being systematically being taken out and that it's their forces that are cannon fodder etc. etc. You've been completely brainwashed by western MSN to the extent that everything is turned on it's head: black is white, fact is fiction and good is bad. It's as if the reality on the ground is completely irrelevant to you. Worse than that, the more evidence you're presented with, the more convinced you become with this Walter Mitty fantasy that Ukraine is winning the war, when it's plain as day they're taking a massive beating. Wake up! It absolutely is about the maps. Look at them and realise what's actually going on which, needless to say, is the complete opposite of what you and your new found friends in the MSM tell you. Why do you believe what they say about Putin and Zelensky, but don't believe a syllable they spout about Covid, Trump, climate change and Brexit etc.? It's completely illogical.
Consider the following . . .
1. There is no Ukrainian counter-offensive. That's just propaganda to feed the western press to keep the money and munitions flowing in. That you of all people have fallen for such palpable nonsense is truly shocking (to me).
2. Russia continues to make steady advances (see the maps!!!!) and, once the Dombas region is secured and they've ground their way through 8+ years of heavily fortified defensive lines - they'll walk over the rest of Ukraine.
3. The much touted gains of the Ukrainian forces are almost all about them using Himars to destroy their own infrastructure. You don't need to be a military expert to know that you don't repel an invading force by doing that. Jeeeeeez! At best, you slow them down and, at the same time, rule out any possibility of forcing them back from whence they came. If I'm wrong, kindly explain how Zelensky's forces are going to force back the Russians beyond the Dnipro River having destroyed the bridges? Do Ukrainians have special powers that Russians don't have that enable them to cross destroyed bridges? That's the sort of fantasy narrative you appear to be offering.
The above are just three examples. You've got nothing to support your position other than empty rhetoric a la ". . . the majority of them [Russians] are just waiting for the opportunity to dissent and flee the situation. . ." It's hot air based on little more than wishful thinking. Time to throw in the towel and admit the war is already lost. The only game in town now is how everyone can get out of it and save face to avoid a bad situation escalating into something much worse. The U.S. wants out - that's plain even for you to see. The U.K. has lost interest for reasons I covered in an earlier post. The only sensible, moral, ethical and viable route still left open to all parties is to call a ceasefire, end the bloodshed and destruction - let alone the appalling waste of money - and reach a negotiated peace settlement. Today. Now. Immediately! Why you can't see that is quite beyond me.
Tim.
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