I’m just showing these comments I saw earlier, which were interesting. Since it is true, that we’ve been hearing that “Russia is cornered”, since the invasion started. I personally just want this shit to end.
These comments are relating to an article from this week.
I wonder if we will ever know what truly happens on the ground (i.e. when it comes to casualties and many other things)
Yes. Both things are true. It’s not like some weird gordian knot that you have to strain your brain to figure out. The majority of the Russian army at this point are very poorly trained mobilized soldiers. They still have a few veteran units, but after a year and a half of fighting, most of them have been replaced with mobiks. And Russia is now calling for another 450,000 people to be conscripted, despite having very little in the way of equipment to give them.
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“They were given some of the best training in the world. The reality of war, fighting against a comparable force without air superiority and in the context of 200-year-old technology is just something no one could have predicted.”
“Also, the country with the second most extensive military in the world and a pervasive military culture is about to have its forces depleted against its neighbor, which has less than a quarter of its population and which is by far the poorest country in the region.”
This isn’t delusion or blind hope at all. I fully believe you.