• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Badly mauled is a weird way to say 15% larger than before the war started https://www.businessinsider.com/russias-army-15-percent-larger-when-attacked-ukraine-us-general-2024-4

    Russia will very obviously be able to take Kiev and anything else it wants when Ukrainian army inevitably collapses. The reality is that the Ukraine was in its best position to make any positive change on the battlefront during the disastrous offensive last summer. That’s when the west cobbled all the support it could give, and Ukraine still had a large and motivated army. Western support is now drying up, meanwhile Ukrainian regime is running out of people to throw into the meat grinder.

    and Ukraine has much more equipment and training than when the war began?

    Literally the opposite is the case as even western media openly admits.

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      6 months ago

      Badly mauled is a weird way to say 15% larger than before the war started

      Larger in soldiers, not in weaponry. And that was achieved through conscription, which means pulling young people in a rapidly aging society away from some of the most productive years of their lives. And of course many of those young people will sadly return to civilian life injured or not at all.

      We’ll see where things go now that Republicans have stopped blocking aid to Ukraine. Having the main supplier of military aid blocked blocked by legislative constipation does tend to make the front lines harder for Ukraine, yes.

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        6 months ago

        Yes, larger in weaponry as well. It’s also completely false that Russian army is growing through conscription. Please don’t spread blatant misinformation here.

        We’ll see where things go now that Republicans have stopped blocking aid to Ukraine. Having the main supplier of military aid blocked blocked by legislative constipation does tend to make the front lines harder for Ukraine, yes.

        The circus with blocking the budget was just that. The real problem US has is that it lacks the industrial base to produce weapons at the necessary rate. Please educate yourself on the subject instead of regurgitating nonsense https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/attritional-art-war-lessons-russian-war-ukraine