NATO and the Rand boys want this to go on as long as they are making profits. Winning doesn’t matter. Look at the conflicts the US has been involved in for decades. The Oligarchs in both Russia and Ukraine are making a killing too. A gas pipeline still runs from Russia to Europe through Ukraine ffs.
My history is fuzzy for that war so I’ll have to cycle back for a more informed response.
You kept saying that, but the groups you gave as examples had the benefit of hiding in difficult terrain. The Mujahideen and the Taliban had the mountains and caves, and the Viet Cong had dense jungles which concealed their underground tunnels. Ukraine is just a flat pancake of a country with just a few treeless hills and a couple of rivers. As for letting Russian roll over the entire country and fight as resistance fighters, Ukrainian partisans are already doing that in the occupied areas, and so far the most they’ve achieved were a couple of assassinations.
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Probably a lot more difference when then language and culture are so similar, too
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Battle of The Bulge analogy seems appropriate then, with probably a better chance of Russian forces cracking under the shock of an offensive than there was with the Western Allies, though still rather slim.
They also had Ho Chi Minh’s momma! 
still remains to be seen. For now I’m just a bystander…
https://x.com/albafella1/status/1829544378538627078
Imagine invading another country for no reason only to get chased by a $50 drone like something out of a Looney Tunes cartoon.
Maybe it’s about time they cut their losses and just went home. If I was this bloke’s family, I would be absolutely livid with Putin for sending him there for zero reason.
Putin changes his reasons for invading every day of the week… we’ve had denazify Ukraine, protect Christianity, defeat satanism, protect Russians in Donbas, stop NATO expansion … it’s almost as if he’s making it all up.
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How about Ukraine shooting down its own ace pilot flying an F-16. Zelensky fired air force head.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/world/europe/ukraine-f16-crash.html
MIC job better than a Wall Street job in the last decade or more.
And… what exactly is your point?
How does a friendly fire incident, which happens in every single war, correlate at all to Putin needlessly sending young Russian men to die in a land that’s not there’s after being chased around by a $50 drone?
Putin’s been quite strategic here.
Um, Ukraine is there. Its on Google Maps, n’everything’.
Perhaps you are thinking of Chinese Taipei, which sort of isn’t, though that doesnt seem to have much to do with the price of’t drones either
US price of an A47 round apparently varies between 0.25 and 1.0 USD, according to Google. Probably cheaper in Eastern Europe
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So Is Finland.
Putin and Xi…. Same talks….
That’s one way to polish it. I think it should be seen as more of a shamelessly blatant recruitment campaign for patsies.
“Woke” certainly hasn’t left the right-wing political water cooler yet lol
Hey, with the help of Tucker Carlson and other right-wing symps he’s shown the Russian army is full of manly men and useless draftees who can’t even mount a successful invasion of Ukraine.
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You noticed a grammar mistake. Very shrewd. Well done.
I bet your fedora quivered with excitement when you saw that one.
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Ukraine advanced again in Kursk.
In addition to capturing Malaa Lokna and Pogrebki, Ukrainian forces have crossed the river west of Korenevo, and surrounded a pocket of Russians, forcing them to flee on foot, leaving their armored vehicles behind. That’s reflected in the grey bulge next to Korenevo.
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