I don't watch TV news other than Tucker. I watch videos on the net of actual combat or real shit, the type of videos that are damn near impossible to fake. Videos of Ukrainian flags being raised in dozens of northern cities that were controlled by Russia just a week or two ago are all over the place. They can't all be fake. Hell, Russia isn't even refuting that they have lost tons of territory. If the retreat is real then all the videos of equipment and ammo being left behind are real too. All the POWs are real etc etc.
If you study the map you also realize that Russia has lost several strategic advantages that it took them months to gain. They lost tens of thousands of men, tons of equipment etc to get where they were. A full 1/4 or more of that just went poof in a week and it cost Ukraine NOTHING. Even if Russia slogged out a fight and took every inch back they would still be losing because that would just be another 30k dead, another 2k tanks/APCs blown up... on and on. Even the USA doesn't have a bench that deep. Russia can't sustain this war for much longer. There isn't any more firewood to throw on this bonfire of stupidity.
I don't watch TV news other than Tucker. I watch videos on the net of actual combat or real shit, the type of videos that are damn near impossible to fake. Videos of Ukrainian flags being raised in dozens of northern cities that were controlled by Russia just a week or two ago are all over the place. They can't all be fake. Hell, Russia isn't even refuting that they have lost tons of territory. If the retreat is real then all the videos of equipment and ammo being left behind are real too. All the POWs are real etc etc.
If you study the map you also realize that Russia has lost several strategic advantages that it took them months to gain. They lost tens of thousands of men, tons of equipment etc to get where they were. A full 1/4 or more of that just went poof in a week and it cost Ukraine NOTHING. Even if Russia slogged out a fight and took every inch back they would still be losing because that would just be another 30k dead, another 2k tanks/APCs blown up... on and on. Even the USA doesn't have a bench that deep. Russia can't sustain this war for much longer. There isn't any more firewood to throw on this bonfire of stupidity.