Russia is winning the war. You have desperate terror attacks by Ukraine which usually means they are about finished.
Who has most destruction? Has any Russian city been captured inside Russia? Is the Kremlin surrounded by Ukraine forces?
Is Ukraine economy functioning? Are their schools operating?
If Russia says no more new NATO members , dual rights for Russian citizens in Ukraine , and Russia keeps half the territory they won , should Ukraine and NATO agree and end the war?
Both sides are losing. Lots of dead people. Lots of destroyed towns and land. They are fighting over a wasteland.
Who will win? Does it matter when the prize is worthless? The people who lived there have nothing to go back to, no matter who controls the area. That has been true for a long time.
It's a stalemate. The loser is the one who gets tired of a game with no winner. The winner is the one who is more stubborn. Not all wars are like this, but plenty throughout history have been like this.
There can be no winner. But then right from the start the only thing that mattered is that both sides can claim they won, even if they didn't. As long as they can pretend they accomplished something, they can stop fighting and save face.
Until that time, they will keep killing each other over a wasteland where nobody wants to live. Those people found a new home and like it a lot better. Their children are learning a new language in school. Their children are mixing with children from other countries, and making friends. Why would they leave and go back to a wasteland? Most won't.
I've seen a LOT of wars in my life, at least a hundred of them. This is one of the most retarded ones. A war of stubbornness and pride - not the first war like that - not even close. But why? That's what makes it so damn retarded.
Well the Russian Black Sea fleet have performed really well, okay they do a good glug glug noise. The 3 day special operation is really going to plan, I mean fielding T-55 and T-62 tanks on day 3 and a lot, is never a sign of desperation. There are not a huge number of senior commanders from 2020 still alive, those high windows they fallout of. At the start of the special 3 day operation, it was because of nato expansion… the result of all of this. Before the latest part of the war (it started in 2014), NATO defence spending was at an all time low, Sweden and Finland were very firmly independent and often anti NATO, now after the 3 day special operation, we have a huge ramp in NATO spending, an increase in newer technology platforms being funded, Sweden and Finland in NATO and the Baltic states firmly anti Russian. Yeah a master stroke by the Russians to start their 3 day special operation, it’s not a war. A country without a navy has decimated the Russian Black Sea fleet, one of the strongest navies on earth. It is easy to get peace Russia with draws to original borders.
I'm tempted to report this question for "trolling", but instead I'll just "pity the fool" as the expression goes. And ask a few awkward questions, like how can anyone say that Russia is winning if for the last two years at least, Russia hasn't been able to either remove the government in Kiev if that is or was their objective, nor neutralise the Ukrainian Army? Why is there a stalemate?
Col. MacGregor is fool. I've seen him make claims that are just patently untrue and downright silly (ex. for the last year at least he's been claiming that Ukraine has no more young people to draft). And he keeps on appearing on that daft show 'Redacted', presented by those two married clowns who are clearly Kremlin stooges parroting Putin propaganda.
"... desperate terror attacks by Ukraine..." - A claim for which there is NO evidence whatsoever, and which doesn't even make sense! God, you really have fallen for the lies.
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Neither side is winning in my opinion because Russia attacking the Ukraine actually led to more countries joining the NATO. Since Sweden and Finland wouldn´t have joined otherwise.
The war will end if either sides comes to a point where they can´t fight any longer. The problem I see with your proposition is that it not only provides Russia with the fundament to take the rest at some point later. It also would show other countries like China for instance that international law and the ban of wars isn´t that much deal. Starting a war against another country won´t cost you. NATO won´t let Russia determine who´s part of them and who isn´t. That´s not going to happen.
On the other hand I agree with you I also don´t think that Ukraine will win. So I let other people decide because the situation is messy as politics is.
No populace can win an international war. People only lose.
I think it's quite short-sighted to think that Russia will militarily defeat the Ukraine and then it's all over and everyone in the NATO leadership says "Aw. Shame. Anyway..." This whole conflict was masterminded by the US State Department and its beginnings put into effect by a division of the CIA. This is the big one, and the US and the UK have been waiting for many decades for this moment.
As such, the conflict has nothing to do with "Russia vs the Ukraine". It is the armed forces of the United States who are going to be attacking Russia, along with their NATO allies. Not just the Ukraine.
Neither country is winning, it's a stalemate at this point, the only ones really benefitting off the Ukraine war are multinational corporations who are benefiting off the sales of weapons to Ukraine, which Ukraine are purchasing with with loans that have a stipulation that Ukraine must put up government assets including farmland for sale. Ukraine is already starting to sell off it's assets to multinational corporations. Ukraine's best days are behind them, and the US and NATO are partly to blame, as they sabotaged 2 separate peace agreements that would have prevented the war in exchange for Ukraine remaining natural/no NATO membership. It's heartbreaking that a generation of Ukrainian men are being sent to die in a war that could have been prevented protecting land that's being snatched up by multinational, western corporations.
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1, so far russia won land it stole.
2, ukraine has most destruction, because the war is there. that doesn't measure winning.
also russia suffered MOST destruction of jets and tanks, if we neasure who lost more , then russia lost.
similarly for the rest of this propaganda. "russia is winning because you n putin say so."
Russia. Biden has rea Ed the end of the road with financing this war. The house will not approve the 160 billion he wanted. By November hopefully he will be gone. President Trump says he will end the war in 24 hours. I think he is a little too enthusiastic but after he is inaugurated it won't be long b g until he brokers a peace.
no one wins even if they win, the cost is just not worth it.
Not even sure why this is asked. This war has 1 outcome. It sucks sure but that is the reality. That outcome can have a few different sub outcomes. Either way russia is going to win.
with an overseas war and no one capable of reliable reporting... i'd say they aren't even fighting
If you think that Ukraine did the terror attack and not ISIS then I have a nice pyramid to sell for you.
stalemate. Reminds me a lot of the western front in WWI
Who knows but there’s other countries surrounding Russia that are now going to join NATO because of this
Ukraine did well for a spell, keeping the Russians from advancing, but after Avdiivka, I fear defeat may be imminent
Who was winning before France came in on America’s side? British.
The profiteers who are risking nothing.
I hope both Vlads get put into a cage and fight to the death. It can be a pay per view event and the proceeds can be used to rebuild both countries.
I don't know I'm guessing Russia
Both are suffering tremendously.
Both sides are losing pretty bad.
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