Ukraine’s defence forces lost control of over 3,600 sq km of territory in 2024, losing more than 20 sq km per day in November. In 2023, they lost a total of about 540 sq km and liberated about 430 sq km.
They are giving citizenship to labor migrants for service there, and to various illegals, so I’d say they need it.
The other theory is that they can’t.
They can. That “partial mobilization” is still in effect. These people are simply afraid of calling anything by its name.
They want to pretend it’s still 00s and we are an imperfect democracy with a counter-terrorist operation slowly going on in Northern Caucasus, we have a fairly elected president with his high rating, stability and booming economy and all that. They really liked that while it lasted.
But, ahem, they don’t want to let go of power. Still, they are trying to call everything the words which would aesthetically fit into that atmosphere of 00s, and it doesn’t make any sense for anyone outside their crowd.
And in the end, let’s be honest, the US lost both of Bush’s wars.
It lost the peace after. It won both wars.
I mean, one can redefine a lot of terms, but then USSR lost WWII, since it fscked up the restoration of its parts of Europe.
They are giving citizenship to labor migrants for service there, and to various illegals, so I’d say they need it.
They can. That “partial mobilization” is still in effect. These people are simply afraid of calling anything by its name.
They want to pretend it’s still 00s and we are an imperfect democracy with a counter-terrorist operation slowly going on in Northern Caucasus, we have a fairly elected president with his high rating, stability and booming economy and all that. They really liked that while it lasted.
But, ahem, they don’t want to let go of power. Still, they are trying to call everything the words which would aesthetically fit into that atmosphere of 00s, and it doesn’t make any sense for anyone outside their crowd.
It lost the peace after. It won both wars.
I mean, one can redefine a lot of terms, but then USSR lost WWII, since it fscked up the restoration of its parts of Europe.