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