I'm not saying they will, but I am noticing some attempts to change the goal posts or the subject. What do you think the response will be like?
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I don't think Russia is going to take over Ukraine, and I dont' think they want to. This will end in some sort of negotiated peace. And then both sides can claim victory. They're just working on the terms.
For instance, Ukraine has been claiming that Russia wants Kiev, right, along with their US media stooges. If they decide to give up territory, after all, they can just say "well we protected Kiev".
If Russia gives up on Donbas, they'll probably keep Crimea, and they can get the Ukies to agree to some terms about not bombing ethnic Russians.
It's easy to paint a false picture of the war when you lied about how it started and about what's at stake.
It seems inevitable to me that Russia will end up controlling everything east of the Dnieper and the only question is how many hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians will die for nothing because the US is still being run by the same people who pathologically hated the Soviets in 1980.
May be hard for Ukraine to spin that as a win, but they will still have a country at least.