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Putin was holding back the entire time
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the only rational explanation for his restraint was that he wanted to minimize civilian casualties and damage to critical infrastructure
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this desire to minimize collateral damage makes Putin a better man than all of the Western commanders who indiscriminately carpet bombed their enemies in virtually every major conflict since WW2
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at this point, if Western media are speaking, they’re lying
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everyone on this board who thought the Ukraine was winning this war, or that Russia was somehow outmatched, is a fucking retard
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I think the Russians really want to drag this out over the winter to make their real enemies suffer the consequences of their sanctions.
Striking Ukraine is the easy part, it's striking every other nation that hides behind them while crying about peace without sparking a ear that is hard.
Winter will probably hot very hard with the retarded sanctions imposed on Russia so dragging this war throughout winter would be preferable if they can afford to do so.
I think Russia would prefer 1) peaceful annexation of eastern, Russian-speaking provinces of Ukraine and 2) security guarantees preventing NATO expansion towards Russian borders. Harming the peoples of Europe is not a primary goal for Putin - just an unavoidable byproduct of the strategy chosen by the west to attack Russia.
If western governments want to harm their own peoples with sanctions against the country providing enormous quantities of cheap energy, then Russia will oblige - especially if the only alternative offered by western leaders is total defeat. If you impose an existential threat to a nuclear power that is also supplying your energy, the resulting hardships on your people should be laid at your own feet.
Why, though, would western governments want to harm their own people? For “green energy” aka the great reset aka global communism aka deindustrialization and depopulation. Our leaders have been looking for any excuse to reduce our energy supply and shrink our economies. Now they can do so under the guise of fighting the Russian boogeyman that they’ve painstakingly crafted via decades of media manipulation.
I agree that if given the chance for what you describe that Putin would likely take it.
I just don't think it will happen without some sort of impetus, in this case I think Russia will try and use the winter as a way to sway foreign public opinion in such a way as to force the elites to try and dial back or risk revolts.
The harder it gets to stay warm, buy food, and just keep going on with a peaceful lifestyle the faster a population will stop caring about foreign matters and look inward.
I believe that Russia is banking on winter being enough to get a more favourable position at the negotiations table.
Because our governments have been occupied and subverted by foreigners who hate us.
WW3 is coming. NATO is going to come up with a justification to invade. We're already there fighting in Ukrainian uniforms mostly likely but that is limited to special forces. (Michael Tracy filmed US troops massing in Poland and going into Ukraine like four months ago.)
Russia can't capture all of Ukraine with the troops they currently have. Many people have pointed this out since the beginning. So it was likely never their goal. The goal was to free the eastern regions and make some kind of neutrality agreement. That's not going to happen now. The west is going to attack and Russia doesn't want them to have an easy time. No comfy beds, working electricity, easy access to food and medicine. They're going to make Ukraine a very unpleasant place to be.
Russia is going to consolidate the newly annexed provinces and build up their defenses. When the NATO attack comes, Putin will claim to be a victim of western aggression. Which will be more or less true. Then it comes down to what China does.
Not that those sanctions matter mind you because Russia simply sells/buys things through a proxy country like India.