• cuibono@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      What does succeeding mean here? Because I’ve heard different people have different takes on that. Do you mean gaining any land compared to a year ago?

      Edit: is there some baggage I don’t know about tied to this question? It was a genuine question. I don’t why it’s downvoted without any responses.

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        1 year ago

        They need to absorb Ukraine. They need it to reach Moldova, Romania and Poland. They are hoping that west will give up (perhaps US get trump again who will gift the Ukraine to putin).

        The thing is that while in Ukraine there’s actual hot war. Russia is fighting hybrid warfare with the West, and it is way better at it than us. All the disinformation, qanon etc might seem like not a big deal to some, but those people also have views changed and are willing to fight with its own government. The BLM protests in 2020, and current attempts to make people fight over Israel VS Palestine is current attempt.

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          1 year ago

          So succeeding for Russia means taking all of Ukraine? I just don’t see that happening with the latest reports talking about how firmly digged in both sides are right now. I honestly think Russia lost their chance at taking all of Ukraine when their initial invasion “failed”. Maybe I’m missing something though.

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            1 year ago

            Russia knows Ukraine can’t keep it up if they don’t get external support. They are heavily invested in disinformation in the West to promote anti Ukraine sentiment. If Ukraine stops getting supplies they will have no chance.