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  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    23·
    4 months ago

    Dude you’ve been doing this for 2 years and the front line is still a 30 minute drive from the border.

    Who can say what might happen if Trump wins, but while a stalemate followed by a peace agreement where Ukraine still loses Crimea and etc seems possible, a complete military victory over all of Ukraine seems like pure fantasy. Y’all can prepare the Russian people for whatever you want, but if you can’t take the land, it’s not gonna help.

    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
      10·
      4 months ago

      And the Russian army is facing the same problem that Germany and Napoleon faced in their invasion of Ukraine. When you gain territory, unfortunately you only end up with some bombed out towns in Ukraine.

      Napoleon tried to blitz all the way to Moscow. He even took the city. But you just end up with a frozen wasteland. Ukraine is only valuable because of the people there. There’s nothing else to take.

  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    4 months ago

    Damn and I thought my estimates were bad. Going from 3 days to 10 years is a pretty big difference and that’s assuming they can even achieve their objectives in 10 years which seems doubtful.

  • Lewo@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 months ago

    some outrageous crazy statement about the war

    it’s from Medvedev, as usual

    Can the press just stop paying attention to him? He doesn’t hold any power, he gets to make no decisions, he was chosen to be Putin’s seat-warmer in 2008 because he was considered to be a safe choice, with no real ambitions and was extremely easy to reel in. His position on the “security council” means nothing, he was put there specifically so he’d be in a hostile environment, being a random guy between the military, the FSB and the intelligence service. Not that the council itself is much more than a Putin’s puppet. He became the biggest hawk as soon as the war started just in case anyone recalls some of his more “liberal” initiatives. In reality, there’s only 3 things he’s in charge of: a bottle, a shot glass and his telegram account.