the people that laugh about the pace of russian advances seem to think that ukraine has unlimited manpower they can keep throwing at the front lines to hold russia at bay. it doesn't matter if it takes russia multiple years to grind ukraine down, because by the end of it, ukraine will still have lost the war no matter how long it took for them to lose. russia seems to have comitted to waging a war of atrition one which they can actually fucking win because they just have more manpower than ukraine. there is no scenario in which ukraine can win the war without some sort of internal collapse of russian will to wage the war (which seems unlikely) or direct western boots on the ground military intervention (even more unlikely).
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