People are dying almost every day, some people have left the country, weapons and ammunition are in short supply, cities and villages are bombed... it's a hardly strong position, and what's worse, Europe and America are prolonging the war, while we could have won long ago, imho. We can't fight forever.

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not a very strong position, true. But Ukraine is nowhere near losing the war. And unless the Russia somehow manages to get big time external help, its economy will eventually crash. It will get very difficult for it to continue its war efforts after that.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Russia doesn't have any significant reserves of armored vehicles with which to continue creating offensives, that is the hard truth for Russia. It does not mean Ukraine is not under serious threat, it means Russia cannot continue to push large offensives without utterly crashing out their economy and fighting force.

All of this hype about drones and motorbikes making tanks and armored vehicles obsolete is part of the lie trying to be sold to cover for the fact that Russia is trying to fight offensives without armored vehicles and they just can't. It never works, it isn't working and it won't work drones don't change that especially when the other side is better at drone tactics AND has armored fighting vehicles. Russia is condemning countless Russians and North Koreans to pointless brutal deaths at the hands of superior Ukranian tactics, and the PR coming out of it looks horrible for Russia most especially from an arms sales standpoint, which is a major driver of Russia's political power along with their oil obviously.

Russia can't keep slamming the few remaining armored vehicles they have into overwhelming defensive Ukranian positions and expect to continue to function as a country, it just won't happen. They will have to find ways to terrorize Ukraine that involve acts of terrorism rather than outright mechanized manuever warfare, and they are and it must be very scary for Ukraine.

That doesn't change the fact though that Russia is not in the strong position that the western media seems to think it is, independent of how Ukraine is doing.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I did not mean to portray this as an easy time for Ukraine, or that Russia doesn't still pose a serious existential threat longer term to Ukraine.. my point is that the western media is bought by rich people and Putin has those rich people for the most part on his side including my orange shit stain of a president, or at least putin has bought them off from directly attacking him too harshly.... which has resulted in a picture being sold to people everyday in my country that Ukraine is about to collapse when Russia just blew through the vast majority of their armor reserves and are now trying to launch an offensive with no significant mechanized troops/armor to support it.

Russia also has lost a huge amount of artillery systems and Ukraine now has a domestic steady production of them.

Russia is far weaker than it looks here, which isn't to say this isn't a desperate junction for the lives of people living in Ukraine, this is a war, I understand that. Wars don't pause for nice days and happy news...

[–] Green_Mouse@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know why your comments were downvoted, people can be so harsh... Anyway, thank you for the clarification.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think probably because people are exhausted and scared and I guess when I stop and think about it I can understand that even as I am frustrated that I am being misunderstood.

People did not choose to be too exhausted and scared to genuinely listen to me, that was something done unto them by their environment and that is the thing that is the root driver of this, not people misunderstanding me in the moment. Every Russian bot troll spouting stupid hate reduces people's capacity to engage with someone like me who at first might trigger a kneejerk categorization as one of those things. The conversation has been degraded on purpose.

...and so I will be patient and explain myself