@bucho@lemmy.one How do you think the war is going buddy? Fingers crossed the meatgrinder will continue and even more will die?
War had ground to a standstill for 12 entire months by the time that was posted, UA out-artilleried 5 to 1 and without air superiority, and someone thought they could make a breakout move.
Takes like this are a dime a dozen among pro-NATO Europeans. They are not ready for the hardships they will soon have to face.
This is typical of the liberal brain pan commenting on foreign countries. “If this, then it’s likely, then maybe, then possibly, and thus.” It’s based on immaterial assumption after immaterial assumption.
comments like this are a great demonstration of why being more informed doesn’t really give you a better grasp on reality. “Russia is a bigger country, and Ukraine is dependent on the goodwill of nations that are historically uninterested in ending warfare and restoring stability” is all you really need to know.
there’s a decent chance of more unrest in Moscow, which would likely move Russians off the front line to quell any dissent back home
so just imagining the political and social conditions of a place you’ve never been with a language you don’t speak, and then assuming that to be true
Also army can only be in one place at once. Russia never figured out how to build multiple armies. So you can fight Ukraine or you can quell dissent. But doing both at once impossible, that’s like an enlightenment era tech. And as we all know the Russians are barbaric orcs who can’t technology.
