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.
I think that calling this a winning streak in the first place deeply misunderstands the dynamics of warfare. Ukraine have been intentionally trading land for time, allowing the Russians to advance at a contained, manageable rate, while inflicting a heavy and continuous cost on them in materiel and manpower.
Ironically, this is exactly how the Soviets defeated the Nazi invasion.
Also both didn’t have another realistic option.
True. But then a lot of strategy is knowing how to recognize the realistic option.
Love that you can’t even read it without paying.
Lol. Fuck war.
What is it good for?
it was on winning streak?
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.
I think the article is clear about what it means by that. It mentions that technically Russia was slowly gaining territory, although at a cost that might not be sustainable. And now those gains have slightly reversed - at least for now (and hopefully that trend will continue).
The same sort of winning the US is doing in Iran
oh thats so much winning, they must be tired of winning by now
