The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large plethora of military resources?

PS: I realize there are many casualties on both sides and I am not trying to downplay the suffering, but I am curious as to how it is going for Ukraine. Right now I am hearing ever louder calls of Russia winning, those have existed forever, but they seem to have grown louder now, so I was wondering what you thought about it. Also, I am somewhat concerned of allowing a dictatorship to just erase at it’s convenience a free and democratic country.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
    1130·
    1 year ago

    Do provide us with sources where Russians stated these were the goals. Seems like it’s western propagandists who’ve been making up goals for Russia and then moving the goal posts.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
        310·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I need sources for the fantastical claim that Russia was trying to take Kyiv with 100k troops. It’s a particularly interesting claim given that they allocated 40k troops to take Mariupol which is an order of magnitude smaller city. A far more plausible scenario is that Russia used 100k troops to fix a chunk of Ukrainian army around Kyiv while Russians took large parts of Ukrainian territory in the east which they still hold today.

        • azertyfun
          51·
          1 year ago

          The paratroopers in Kyiv’s airport were just taking in the scenery. Really unfortunate that they were shot. And that 50 km tank column headed for Kyiv really was just lost on its way to Mariupol. Yep, exactly, that’s what happened.

          Lmao what a lame-ass trolling attempt, you have mush for brains if you think this is either effective propaganda or… funny?

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
            312·
            1 year ago

            The only one with mush for brains is the guy who thinks Russia would be trying to take Kyiv with 100k troops. The fact that you don’t even understand why that’s absurd makes it all the more hilarious.

    • JohnDClay
      1·
      1 year ago

      Here you are, a game theory analysis of their likely aims. The ‘denazifying’ rhetoric is intentionally incredibly vague so they couldn’t be pinned down as losing. So better to look at the implied goals of their actions.

      https://youtu.be/pBwT-5z9R5Al