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Not yet til they reach 500k dead soldiers thats a big failure.
With all due respect, I think Russia has a few failures left in it. >

There’s this thing called a “failure cascade” where an event (a small failure, or a major battle defeat) bleeds into one thing, into another, into another, and the whole effort can unravel SHOCKINGLY quick. Like an engine with a small problem, and suddenly it’s dead.
I am not sure when it ends (I think before Summer), but you will be surprised how quickly it all comes down.
It’s actually called Cascading Failure, but I just like the word sequence I put out of nostalgia. >

Eve online vet? >

I was there. >

I was in Delve with goonfleet when BoB lost(an allied corp not goonfleet proper) which is the only time I ever heard the term "failure cascade" hehe. >

There have been a few over the years. There was even an alliance that went by the name. They had a pretty cool logo if I remember correctly. >

TIME for some good old fashioned ATACMS >

I think they will wait with those for when the Iranian rockets arrive. >

They’re never going to stop. Putin will destroy his entire economy and social infrastructure before he gives up and admits defeat. He will probably die or be overthrown before we see a white flag. >

You say they’re never going to stop and then list three plausible scenarios in which they would stop. >

And he literally said that these 3 scenarios are extremely unlikely to happen, so /u/xoangieeee s point still stands >

And even if those things do happen it's still unlikely they'll stop.  They're a country led by a cabal of hundreds of mafioso thugs all waiting to sieze control and become the next murderous plutocratic Czar, each and every one of them as bad as Putin if not worse. >

This. People think it's only Putin, and everyone else in their government is a normal person just waiting for their turn to introduce western democracy there. >

That's not what people are thinking. They're thinking everyone else in government is equally self serving, but willing to let a dead Putin take the whole blame for this mess and extricate themselves from it as soon as possible to salvage what's left of their economy. >

I’m all for destroying Russia’s spring offensive with overwhelming firepower. Anywhere, everywhere, all at once.
Whether it will be Russia’s final offensive though is up to the Russian people and so far they don’t seem to understand the depth of their evil. >

It gets better... Spring in much of Ukraine is mud. Generally when you are on an offensive you use mobility to encircle enemies or breakthrough battle lines.
Mud slows everything down.
Spring is one of the worst times for a large scale offensive. Offensives are still possible but late winter or summer are better times... >

that mud also guarantees that they will be finding UXO and mines for the next 100 years (or getting killed by them). >

I can only hope ukraine has gotten a ton of help/gear that was done covertly and waiting to spring them on the Russian spring offensive >

I imagine another of intelligence is being shared with them involving satellite images of troop movements and the like. >

Agreed - anything less than complete failure and dissolution is just giving them time to rearm and try again. >

But it’s definitely not going to be the final failure because Putin is sadistic and gives zero fucks about the lives of his soldiers. >

But Putin said they are good with where they were at. Why the change???? /S