• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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    15 days ago

    It is massively fucked but… they probably should.

    This war is ending in March or April one way or another. Europe/NATO have committed to supporting Ukraine. The US is almost guaranteed to actively betray them. And you can bet the EU and the like are going to be consolidating resources in fear of whatever else comes up.

    So Ukraine needs to win NOW. It is probably already too late to meaningfully train those conscripts but having a military force that can act in that small window of late January is basically their only hope.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      15 days ago

      Its actually kinda amazing they are doing so well with so limited a draft and how russia has had to call in north korea. I mean even if russia wins their method to to fuck up ukraine infrastructure so then at that point what have they won and they buried themselves in the process.

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        14 days ago

        Even if Russia “wins” they are going to occupy a country that will fuck with them for a half century. They’ll have to genocide like Israel to actually win.