people keep saying this but the reality on the battlefield shows that russia is winning handily, ukraine hasn't won a battle since 2022 and they're down to mobilizing 18 year-olds during rolling blackouts. even if you believe the comically inflated casualty claims coming out of kiev, which i don't, simple math says ukraine can't win.  to me it seems like americans (and i'm fond of you guys as a people btw) believe in their own exceptionalism and simply aren't capable of admitting defeat, to the point where they become delusional about it.  look at afghanistan: the soviets figured out the war was lost in half the time nato did, and their puppet government survived for another 3 years after that. compare that to the multinational 20-year hell slog which culminated in the fall of kabul.
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