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Did the fight for Baghdad drag on for three years of savage trench warfare while the US was reduced to fielding tanks from four generations ago and everyone gawped at satellite images of their empty vehicle depots? No? I'm sure Ukraine is fluffing their numbers but there's no way to imagine Russia hasn't suffered absolutely appalling losses, in a war mostly taking place a day's walk from their own border.
Was I supposed to have been under a prior impression that Russia would never ever be able to extend military force even one inch beyond their own borders no matter how much they were willing to bleed for it? Were you?
Maybe you were, maybe you're one of those Reddit heroes who were counting on truth and justice and Harry Potter and the Avengers to triumph in the end, but for some of us the writing has been on the wall for over a year. The west, including the previous administration, just gives way less of a shit about this than Russia does. Sorry if you bought the propaganda.
I deleted my prior angry screed that I had here, I realized that I had started this whole exchange by accidentally replying to entirely the wrong person, which is why my tone seemed seemed so oddly strident.
My point was that it’s probably time for Ukraine to pack it in because they’re not doing as well as claimed, and NATO likely doesn’t have the industrial capacity to bail them out. I went and looked at your other posts and I noticed that you were saying basically the same thing and I was sort of talking past you. Sorry about that.
All good man.
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