Which makes them more dangerous because they have the strength, the size, and the manpower to do a lot of damage if they just stop giving a damn or we're angry enough.
Which is pretty much happening right now. They've been incredibly restrained the entire war up until the Crimea bridge bombing, and since then they've switched to infrastructure attacks and are systematically dismantling Ukraine's entire power grid piece by piece. My opinion was that they probably wanted to keep it intact but the west's complete commitment to this war changed the equation.
Yep. Ukraine's been acting like they're fighting an invader, posting tiktok videos of wasting missiles in massive launches and personal drones dropping grenades on soldiers taking a shit. They've been fucking around this entire time while Russia tried different strategies. Winter is coming, and Russia's long game is finally dawning on them.
Very much so. Which is probably a large part of why I've not been wanting to watch most coverage on the whole thing. Everyone's trying to push the most fakeass madeup narratives and angles, but Western media especially has been trying to play up the "fighting for freedom" angle, which while not necessarily strictly "false" in that they are fighting to preserve their national sovereignty, it is not "exactly" a David and Goliath, underdog story either.
Russia's been pulling punches so they can min-max their gains with minimal costs and damage. And the "heroic Ukraine" is largely only holding their own because the "big bad wolf" doesn't want to overcook and spoil his entree, and because they're basically receiving open-NATO support without NATO countries actually firing anything themselves. I don't know if that makes it more or less proxy, as far as proxy wars go.
And in my previous comment I guess I should've emphasized that I didn't have an opinion either way on the statement I was quoting. I just found it amusing due to the way he was phrasing it. Maybe I've just been too immersed in Slavic memes lately.
The only way this ends is if they turn Kiev into a bombed out crater with little man still inside. If they don't kill him, the war will continue no matter what gains they make. He is the figure head, and without him, the west won't support much more than they have. It's disgusting that our governments have given anything to this after all they did to help bring this about.
That's why the media hyped him up with all those lies at the start. When in reality he is a little shithead that doesn't care about his citizens dying because he gets paid regardless
Which makes them more dangerous because they have the strength, the size, and the manpower to do a lot of damage if they just stop giving a damn or we're angry enough.
Which is pretty much happening right now. They've been incredibly restrained the entire war up until the Crimea bridge bombing, and since then they've switched to infrastructure attacks and are systematically dismantling Ukraine's entire power grid piece by piece. My opinion was that they probably wanted to keep it intact but the west's complete commitment to this war changed the equation.
Yep. Ukraine's been acting like they're fighting an invader, posting tiktok videos of wasting missiles in massive launches and personal drones dropping grenades on soldiers taking a shit. They've been fucking around this entire time while Russia tried different strategies. Winter is coming, and Russia's long game is finally dawning on them.
Very much so. Which is probably a large part of why I've not been wanting to watch most coverage on the whole thing. Everyone's trying to push the most fakeass madeup narratives and angles, but Western media especially has been trying to play up the "fighting for freedom" angle, which while not necessarily strictly "false" in that they are fighting to preserve their national sovereignty, it is not "exactly" a David and Goliath, underdog story either.
Russia's been pulling punches so they can min-max their gains with minimal costs and damage. And the "heroic Ukraine" is largely only holding their own because the "big bad wolf" doesn't want to overcook and spoil his entree, and because they're basically receiving open-NATO support without NATO countries actually firing anything themselves. I don't know if that makes it more or less proxy, as far as proxy wars go.
And in my previous comment I guess I should've emphasized that I didn't have an opinion either way on the statement I was quoting. I just found it amusing due to the way he was phrasing it. Maybe I've just been too immersed in Slavic memes lately.
The only way this ends is if they turn Kiev into a bombed out crater with little man still inside. If they don't kill him, the war will continue no matter what gains they make. He is the figure head, and without him, the west won't support much more than they have. It's disgusting that our governments have given anything to this after all they did to help bring this about.
That's why the media hyped him up with all those lies at the start. When in reality he is a little shithead that doesn't care about his citizens dying because he gets paid regardless