US intelligence says Putin honestly believes he's winning

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This isn’t Vietnam. Russia is heavily under sanctions and they’re about to default on debt. Sanctions are fukking their economy and unlike the US in Vietnam, they literally cannot afford a long term quagmire in Ukraine.

Russia isn’t “winning”. They can’t topple the Ukraine government or take the capitol. They’re constantly losing vehicles and men. This is a disaster for them. They may take parts of the East but likely can’t hold them.
dude the ruble has already bounced back, they have more than enough to pay their debts without defaulting, their collaborating with China to building a rival financial system.
Stop thinking Russia is a unruly country that will get put in it's place, they're drawing a line in the sand and saying any countries that don't really fukk with the West come build with us.
This is BRICS taken to the extreme.

Please get your news from actual people that have an actually stake in the outcome of this war, instead of the media conglomerates that have financial stake in the war
The ruble has bounced back. Are sanctions not working?
How Russia can avert sovereign default and why it might not care
China and Russia to establish independent financial systems: Russian media - Global Times
 

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telegram banning the channels posting live combat footage smh.
They really trying to trap us in a propaganda tank. Even the Chinese/Indian/African coverage is painting a different picture than the US media.
Did the US government set up telegram ?
 

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you guys would have looked at the casualty numbers from Stalingrad and thought the Russians lost.
Their country has a different culture when it comes to war and death.

you just proved yourself wrong.

if Stalin had ordered a strategic retreat behind the Volga River and linked up with reinforcements many Russian lives could have been saved but...Stalin was too proud to have a city named after him fall so he ordered any retreating soldier be shot by their own.

back then they could still make tanks and bombs, not so much right now.

Putin is a dead man walking, it's just a matter of time.
 

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Russia has alway fought wars by throwing bodies. That's like saying that Nazis really beat Russia because so many Russian soldiers died compared to Nazis on the Eastern front. Russian warfare has always been of attrition. Wear down the enemy and play the long game.
They are losing the war of attrition as we speak and will lose the war of attrition in the long run.
 

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Why focus on a staged coup between two racist factions on the other side of the planet?

My heart goes out to the Smith and Rock families in these trying time. :mjcry:
I could careless about both of these countries dude , i am a black male
 
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