This war has fallen into an effective stalemate. True, Russia has not mobilized since 2022 (officially at least), but their contract recruitment have been running below their losses for approx the last 5-6 months. The National Wealth Fund is depleting, Oblast recruitment budgets are under severe strain, and Russian logistics are deteriorating under relentless interdiction.
See spiraling fuel shortages in Crimea and Donetsk. The 2026 offensive has stalled out with none of its objectives achieved, and Ukraine has rolled them back in certain sectors.
The current tempo of operations has become unsustainable for the Russians, and unless they come up with some solutions soon, their offensive capacity will be completely exhausted within months.
Russia is not winning this stage of the war. Unless they adapt or change strategies on a fundamental level, they won't be winning the next phase either.
What peace deal? There is no peace deal on the table. Four years ago, there was framework on peace negotiations about to be agreed to until the Russians massacred civilians in Bucha and Irpin, and shelling fleeing civilians in an agreed safe corridor from Mariupol.
Deals with Russia aren't worth the paper they're written on.
@adamJ13924@deltadenizen@EthanLevins2 Four years ago they occupied over 25% of Ukraine. Now it's barely 20%. And their offensive momentum has completely stalled out among recruitment woes and deteriorating logistics.
Where is this winning you Vatniks keep claiming?
This right winger thinks Heemeyer was a stubborn asshole who irrationally refused every out he was offered.
The man had the chance to either retire on what he was offered for his property, or move somewhere else, buy a nice house outright, buy a property in a better location to restart his business better than ever while still having lots of money left over to put toward a comfy retirement.
But no, he decided to be an asshole and throw it all away for whatever fucked up reasons he justified to himself.
Zero sympathy for that jackass.
@alleria_eh Right, because wanting to deport people in the country illegally is exactly the same as the final solution.
Stop being such an obtuse wanker.
If Ukraine is suffering such horrifyingly lopsided casualties, how is Russia still struggling to capture the Donbas four years later? Why has Russia's 2026 offensive stalled so badly, and been reversed in several regions?
Either you're a ludicrous liar, or Ukraine has unlimited manpower to the levels of the Soviet fucking Union.
Logic tells me it's the former.
@buckers772@aljhlester@nw_nicholas Yes, let us be more polite about the police who let a kid bleed out and die because they were terrified his murderer would call them racist.
Go fuck yourself and keep on fucking yourself.
Sorry, but the riots in Southampton are fully justified. Fully justified. Of course they're angry that a kid was allowed to die because the police were terrified of being called racist by a psycho Punjabi holding the fucking knife that killed him.
Who the fuck wouldn't be full of rage??