The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large plethora of military resources?

PS: I realize there are many casualties on both sides and I am not trying to downplay the suffering, but I am curious as to how it is going for Ukraine. Right now I am hearing ever louder calls of Russia winning, those have existed forever, but they seem to have grown louder now, so I was wondering what you thought about it. Also, I am somewhat concerned of allowing a dictatorship to just erase at it’s convenience a free and democratic country.

  • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    Russia is successfully and deservedly shitting on all of NATO’s weaponry, warfare and weapon manufacturing capabilities. They won the war long ago, now it is just being dragged. I see a lot of western liberal liars in comment section.

    https://www.defenseone.com/business/2023/11/race-make-artillery-shells-us-eu-see-different-results/392288/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/us/politics/russia-sanctions-missile-production.html

    Also, I am somewhat concerned of allowing a dictatorship to just erase at it’s convenience a free and democratic country.

    Last I checked, Russia did not erase any country. However, Blackrock, a private US firm, is acquiring and selling Ukraine’s land. You should be worried about US/NATO-backed Israel terrorist state that is genociding and erasing the country of Palestine.

  • Diva (she/her)
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    Considering this is a war of attrition, “winning” such as it is doesn’t look like conscripting every man, woman and child that can hold a gun to get blown up in trenches. They should have just negotiated a year ago.

  • @Paragone@lemmy.world
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    At the moment Ukraine is winning.

    When Trump is crowned GEOTUS, after the Repubs win 2024 ( the economic rug-pull in 2024 will remove the Dems, through backlash-vote ) then the tide will turn, as the gutted remains of NATO/OTAN try to understand how to endure as the TOTAL global geopolitcs table got thrown, violently, on its side, scattering all the playing-pieces, all the indicators, EVERYthing gets flipped, then.

    GEOTUS Trump will back Russia & Saudi Arabia, both.

    Possibly China, as well ( he does have investments in China ).

    The remains of the Western-cultures’ alliance are then on their own.

    US Civil War Part2 will probably destroy about a quarter billion lives in North America within 14y,

    and ww3 begins a mere 7y after Trump’s crowning ( +/- 1 year ).

    Things are going to be VERY tough in Eastern Europe, with the US pouring its support into exterminating the former Soviet Bloc countries who oppose Putin/Russia, with the US backing Russia.

    Wait & see.

    It’s going to be hell, on Earth, for almost-all of this century.

    The drastically quicker-than-simulated sea-level-rise isn’t going to help, particularly since Greenland’s meltwater will drown the North Atlantic coasts ( it takes 1000 years for it to redistribute to near Australia. The 1st few centuries it’ll be predominantly drowning the West ), and when you add enough water to raise the PLANET’s sea-level by 1 metre, but you put it ALL in the North Atlantic…

    it may well be 3m around the North Atlantic, this century.

    ( there is a powerlaw underlying planetary heating, current atmospheric CO2 requires the planet to equilize at more than +5C.

    When you add-in the anthrogenic methane, as CO2 equivalent, the planetary equalization temperature is more than +8C.

    All the “+1.5C” and “+2C” are baseless delusions, contradicted by historical data of the last couple million years. )

    Anyways, eyes-open, calibrate, prepare, & earn making oneself competent for what is guaranteed to come, right?

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