• @halcyoncmdrEnglish
      23•2 days ago

      Seems to be a nice new influx of Russian sock puppet accounts in the last 24 hours.

    • Skua
      7•2 days ago

      The better-equipped the army is, the fewer casualties it takes while fighting. This is why you see stuff like Desert Storm, in which one side was enormously better-equipped and took a tenth of the casualties of the other

      • ZeroOneEnglish
        0•2 days ago

        Suuuuuuuure tell that to IDF

        • Skua
          3•2 days ago

          Uhhh… sure? I think it’s quite safe to say that there have been fewer Israeli casualties than Palestinian while the IDF bombs Gaza

          • ZeroOneEnglish
            0•2 days ago

            & yet they weren’t able to take a dot on the map, plus the difference is overwhelming

            Now Hezbollah on the other hand

        • Skua
          8•2 days ago

          They literally do mean more manpower in the future. If you lose less now, you have more than you would have going forward.

          And the country’s “leader” doesn’t want it to stop.

          This is nonsense. He doesn’t want it to stop on terms that would be equivalent to a total defeat. I see that you’re a fan of Trump, but don’t let that cloud the fact that Trump’s “deal” was nothing more than an attempt at extortion.

            • Skua
              4•2 days ago

              No, it does not magic more manpower out of thin air. As you said, though, it is a war of attrition. It cuts down the attrition. That matters, because right now Russia remains unable to sweep through Ukraine and is having to offer more and more to offset its own attrition. Tank depots are running dry. Inflation is spiking. Ukraine gets away with its economy being fucked becase Europe is propping it up with funding.

              Giving up territory now without meaningful security guarantees does nothing to prevent Russia from coming back for more later. Like how it took Crimea in 2014 and came back for more. Like what it did in Chechnya. Like what it did in Georgia. Russia got away with it once, it did it again. Giving up a portion of Ukrainian territory without actual backup isn’t just that, it’s surrendering entirely to being a Russian puppet state, because if Ukraine does anything against Russia’s interests then Russia just comes back for more.

              Tell me, how much of your own country would you give up to an invader that acts like that? What if it was the part you lived in?

                • Skua
                  4•2 days ago

                  If it was so obvious then Russia obviously knows too and it should just be explicit. Ukraine can’t rely on implications here. The Budapest memorandum clearly wasn’t good enough.

                  Territory can be regained

                  By what means? More bloodshed? Or are you hoping the invader just decides to return it out of the goodness of their own heart?

                  Considering the long history of Russification in Russia’s territories, life doesn’t just get to go on and family and friends are not all alive and well.