cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/45694113
Not that CNN is a good source, the reason I posted the CNN link is because it is indicative that CNN is concluding this publicly and emphatically. It shows the calculus of US mainstream media is changing towards Ukraine, which is not something it has really done for quite awhile.
Over the past four years Russia has been ever so slowly gaining small amounts of territory, bit by bit.
I guess that can be described as a “winning streak”, because if that continues infinitely without change, eventually in a couple of hundred years they would have all of Ukraine’s land.
However, that ignores the cost of war, and how Russia will pay for keeping that up.
Unfortunately I fear the easing of Russian oil sanctions due to Trump’s latest military folly in Iran will give Russia’s economy the jump start it needs to continue the war for longer than it would have been able to otherwise.
Hopefully I’m wrong. Ukraine has suffered enough.