• @Furbag
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    7910 months ago

    People said Ukraine would be flattened in a month like… Two years ago now. If you think Ukraine doesn’t have a chance of winning, you’re not paying the slightest amount of attention.

    If Russia could win, they’d have done it by now. This is Afghanistan 2.0 for Russia.

    • @agent_flounder
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      1610 months ago

      Either that or they like shilling for papa Putin or something. Who knows.

    • @fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee
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      1610 months ago

      This is way, way worse than Afghanistan. They lost 20k troops in Afghanistan, and a small fraction of the equipment they’ve lost in Ukraine. How many A-50s and flagships did they lose back then? They’re getting literally decimated or worse when you look at lost troops, jets, armor, and ships.

      Afghanistan helped destabilize the USSR. Hopefully Ukraine destabilizes Russians current Mafia government and gives the Russians another shot at democracy.

      • @Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social
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        210 months ago

        Whoa… maybe not brightest for this, but i hadn’t even considered the Afghan war comparisons. Its incredible how so much fewer troops perished then, and we still look at the war as critically destabilizing the USSR.

        Heres hoping for much worse of the same this time.

        • @fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee
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          110 months ago

          Yes, it’s also sad. Back than Russian mothers who lost sons in the war were able to organize and push back. These days they can’t even wave a blank flag.