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Honestly they’ve been that way the entire time. There’s really no one with real, practical experience fighting a war like this in which the side they’re on is fighting an invading army with significant firepower. We’ve generally been the initiators and the conquest phase has been very very quick — rarely over 3-4 months. That isn’t what will happen in Ukraine even if they eventually win (which is in doubt I think).
This means that most people making the decisions are operating on the cultural assumption about invasion, which is that right means victory. It’s a weird thing to me that so many seem to just assume that because Ukraine was invaded, that it is destined to win and take back all the territory it lost and that since Putin invaded he’s destined to lose.
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