Everything here is written from the perspective of a person who actually wants Russian to win, which I do not, but I am capable of writing from that perspective. Plenty of pro-Russian types on Telegram have written similar things to parts of what you will read below. The tl;dr is that Russia has been fighting this war based on foolish political calculations from Putin, not based on honest military calculations from the commanders in the field. This has caused the Russian military to grossly underperform throughout the war, which continues to this day.
Russia will win, whether you like it or not.
Except Russia is losing right now, and it is losing because it has made stupid choices that are unserious about victory every step of the way:
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Russia tried an initial blitz strategy that assumed Ukraine would not seriously resist, when Russian intelligence told Putin Ukraine would resist, but he chose to believe his sycophants instead. The result was a debacle with enormous Russian losses and two embarrassing retreats from the North. My alternative warplan would have guaranteed Russian victory within months by pocketing and capturing the bulk of Ukraine's veteran forces.
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After suffering initial failures and setbacks, the Russians pivoted to "Hearts of Iron artillery-only challenge" in which they burned through decades of artillery ammunition stockpiles in mere months in order to bully the Ukrainians, and only took a tiny amount of territory in exchange for moonscaping large swaths of Ukraine. Then HIMARS showed up and blew up enough ammo caches that this strategy became unsustainable a few months earlier than otherwise since Russians became ammo-constrained.
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Sergey Surovikin was brought in and did the 1 intelligent thing Russia has done the whole war: HE WENT OVER TO THE DEFENSIVE AND STARTED TO REBUILD RUSSIAN STRENGTH. His plan was to build a strong defense, wait for the next Ukrainian offensive, crush it, then go on the counterattack with his eventual manpower advantage from mobilization, likely in late spring to summer 2023.
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Dumbass Putin, impatient and not willing to give Surovikin's plan a chance, stepped in again with fucking Wagner & Yevgeny Prigozhin strutting with a bunch of bullshit marketing claims about how they could win the war. Wager got huge favoritism in resources and was allowed to burn through tons of men's lives in order to grind down the flanks of Bahkmut. When this eventually worked in very small ways, Putin fired Surovikin & replaced him with Valery Gerasimov with marching orders to go back on the offensive.
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The Russian offensive which began in late January to presented, WASTED ALL THE RESOURCES Surovikin had built up, for NOTHING except a little more land around Bakhmut. This offensive was retarded, and wasted the 1 hope Russia had of making major gains, and instead completely reversed the situation so that Russia is wasting all its strength and opening itself up to a Ukrainian counter-attack JUST LIKE IT DID BEFORE AT KHARKIV. Russia should have been setting up for a Kursk type battle, and instead it just wasted whatever benefits it had from the 1st round of mobilization to set itself up for a Case Blue.
If things continue as they are now, and there is every reason to believe they will, Russia will keep exhausting itself until it completely loses offensive potential. Then Ukraine will counter-attack and likely will break through in at least one area. Whether this break through will be successfully exploited will depend on many factors, but the Russians have put themselves in the worst possible position, all because of emotionally driven and politically driven bungling.
The liberal media commanded that he stay. Because if there's one thing they like more than Democrats, it's forever war. The only time they ever criticized Biden was when he ended a war, albeit disastrously.
Ending a war does not make you a 'coward'. It's not his life that's on the line either way.
The guy who got humiliated and completely discredited? Anyway, let's not pretend that European "countries" have any power beyond just obeying American commands. And if they even hesitate, their infrastructure gets blown up.
Your exact opinion.
The problem is that the same people who own the politicians, own the media. It makes sense that they do what the media "commands", but it's not because the media commanded it. Rather, the media is the propaganda arm of the corporatons, the banks, the wealthy - the same who own the politicians.
Come on, the media does not care about Taiwanese starving or dying. Or anyone. They care about the interests of their wealthy owners.
I don't see how. They could come all the way to Berlin, and they'd be no further than they were in 1989.
How can you claim that China is like Globohomo? They're actively opposing the Globohomo stuff, not promoting it.
I don't know if he would, but there's certainly the possibility. If not, why do people like Mearsheimer say that it is in the US' interests to defend Taiwan? He's a well-known restrainer, as you know.
lol, voters
"Voters" in the EU oppose mass migration. Guess what we got? Voters oppose trooning kids. Guess what we get? Voters don't mean anything. It's "our democracy" for the politicians because they decide what happens and screw the "voters".
That is actually pretty smart. Going to war with China seems to be pretty stupid.
Lobbyists, wealthy donors and corporations rule to roost. That's US politics, and politics in every "western" country.
Of course I know what the blob is. It was literally made up by a guy who then himself became part of the blob. Same guy who bragged about revoking Snowden's passport while he was in Russia to trap him there and say that he doesn't REALLY care about civil liberties, because Russia bad.
Trumpists oppose China and want to fight it economically. Neocons want another war there.
With all 'western' arms and ammunition depleted, this seems like a very good time to attack. If China doesn't, it's because it thinks that it will be in an even better position to attack 5 years from now.
Of course not. Because that would also give Taiwan more time to prepare and rearm. Unless China thinks that it would be in a better position to attack 5 years from now than now, it will attack now. That's why you don't do stuff like sending massive amounts of arms.
Nonsense. World War I was the result of German fear of Russia. Which makes sense, because Russia was a rising power, threatening Germany's predominant position in Europe. Better to have a war sooner rather than after more years of Russian development.
And Stalin was rearming like crazy, because he knew full well that Germany was going to attack. So why wait until 1942 when you are in a better position in 1941?
NATO has been training Ukrainians to, yes, terrorize the people of the Donbas for years now. They've been sending weapons. Trump sent weapons.
Why leave this open wound rather than closing it? At least now it will move towards a resolution.
This Western arrogance will eventually lead to a world war 3.
GOPe talking points.