Russia can stop this at any time by surrendering.
They don’t need to surrender. just retreat back to the previously agreed international border.
Ukraine showed us how strong they are and how much of a paper tiger Russia is.
it has showed us the propaganda working its formulas. i reckon russia claims the same kind of stats to their own people, no?
It’s hard to lie about the line at the gas station.
Except. Ukraine is still there. Fighting. And Russia … Not winning.
That alone shows at least: that either Ukraine is much more powerfull then anyone thought, or that Russia is much weaker then anyone thought.
Probably a little of both.
i mean how do we truly know russia is not winning? i hope for that but…
Not so much, no. Russian media is more concerned with identity politics–discussing the ‘fascism’ of Ukraine, discussing recruitment of (Ukrainian) troops, the difficulties of ‘liberating’ a country, etc.
Do you think, maybe, the outlet has a slight bias here? Would you happen to have any other article with corroborating information?
The article points towards an “analyst” on telegram, but he’s just posting numbers without any insight into methodology or where he gets them from beyond being told the numbers.
Of course it has a bias and deserves to be taken with a grain of NaCl. But it helps explain the increasing rates of successful Ukrainian deep strikes and the summer mid range strikes on the Russian logistics network in support of Operation Vivaldi and the isolation of the Crimean peninsula
Everything has bias
Could you be more specific with the data you take issue with? The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has provided the destruction tally, which is good enough for our purposes here.
Do you think air defense technology is easily replaceable by a country that can barely produce 90nm chips (current is down to ~3nm)?
I am the first person to expect relatively good quality reporting/sources, but I don’t see any issues with the statements made in the article.
hot take: trusting a gov to provide war stats is silly. govs have got a documented history of fucking stats or downright lying.
I guess it’s soon time for Europe to invade Russia
Why? Nobody wants that garbage.
Russians genuinely believe Europe is invading any time now.
eh… look, there are the putin-forever types, like maga, but I don’t think they represent the majority.
I think the majority is just trying to live through these times and not run afoul of the oligarchs busy running the country into the ground. if they had half a fuckin brain they’d be lighting their own country alight, but that’s another convo.
Kaliningrad must go independent, we need more Baltic states.
ehhh, it’s filled with Russians. Do they even want to be independent?
Guess what!? Invad them and do immediatly a referendum of inependence with guns pointed at their heads.
What somebody did this twice before? Must be some kind of mad genius
I could totally see the independent city state of St Petersburg.
I would rather see a Estonian-Finnish border on Neva. Free cities don’t last.
Third times the charm lol
Wondering how many are left and how many they can make.
Estimates vary wildly but anywhere from 200-800. And production estimates vary as well from 5-60/month. So 70 is a significant number.
Yeah… and i imagine that they lose more as they can’t provide mutual overlapping cpverage.
they’re hideously expensive AND ridiculously complex… but even worse, a tremendous amount of electronics that can’t be fabricated in russia are involved. so as far as production is concerned - they can’t make many, it’ll take a long time, and it’ll rely on evading western sanctions.
