• random65837@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Of course they’re not, Ukraine has zero chance of actually beating the Russian military. I’m on Ukraine’s side on this, but elementary school math here. Unless a major country puts boots on the ground with them, which is unlikely because that’ll start WW3, Ukraine’s only buying time.

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      11 months ago

      Russia lost in Afghanistan (a much smaller and weaker country than Ukraine), they can lose here too.

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        10 months ago

        Afghanistan was a colonial war. Crimea is the only base Russia has in hot seas. Major wars was fought to conquer it. So USA cannot win a war because they too had lost in Afghanistan? And the enemy was even weaker, without any major power support ( see Rambo 3 for reference )

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          10 months ago

          Novorossiysk (sp?) Only needs to be dug out IIRC. Might he cheaper than maintaining Crimea.