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keymone t1_ixo4ok4 wrote

Reply to comment by Kidrellik in Ukraine works to restore power after bruising Russian attack by LieutJimDangle

You don’t account for russia’s dwindling support for war effort, sinking popularity of putin as coffins get shipped home and most importantly - degrading equipment in face of winter.

They have been on the back foot for 6 months and losing ground - that doesn’t play into “the great empire with second best army in the world” and at some point the charade will break from the inside.

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Kidrellik t1_ixoifiv wrote

Yea moral and the popularity of the war and Putin don't really matter since he has a massive internal police force which keep an eye on everything and arrest people left, right and center so the chance of some major revolution happening is pretty much slim to none right now. If it's like a million dead and 4 years from now, then there might be some real repercussions. Their equipment is also mostly going to be fine because they're artillery army well NATO is an air power army, which actually does get hampered a lot during winter.

They could also just say that they're fighting NATO in Ukraine which in all honesty, they kind of are. I mean Ukraine, a country with a gdp comparable to Mississippi , got a 100 billion dollars in 8 months of which 54 of that went to their army. That's the military budget of France, a country with 20 times they're gdp and comparable to Russia it self.

At the end of the day, this war is going to be years long and if it comes down to who could bleed more, Ukraine has to cause a lot more causalties then Russia does.

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