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  The deluge of footage of Russian troops on the back foot, plus constant posts of Russian forces surrendering seems to paint a dangerously misleading picture on Reddit. Based on these posts alone, you’d think the Ukrainians are on the verge of annihilating the Russians.
  Yet a year later, both sides are bogged in a brutal war. I’d take Zeleksnsky’s warnings over an overly rosy picture being painted by well-intentioned but terribly selective Reddit posts. >
  
  Both sides are in a race to re-arm and recruit over the winter for the spring offensives. >
  
  They're also in a propaganda battle. As important as winning is convincing the opposition that you winning is inevitable. >
  
  There Zelenskyy has a tricky line to walk as well. 
  He has to convince his people that they will win of course. He also has to convince the international community that they will win if they get sufficient support, while telling Russia that they are getting more than enough right now but also letting donor nations know that they really do need more. >
  
  Which is why the west should just go all in. Russian can't hope to match their spending and production capability, the quicker they're removed from Ukraine, the better. >
  
  That is when the nukes come out, the West (America really) are totally fine with bleeding Russia out in a protracted inconclusive conflict, it's been an American fantasy since Vietnam to trick their enemies into the same mistakes. >
  
  We already got that when the Soviets entered Afghanistan. Though, that uh, kind of backfired on us >
  
  And it could again while it appears much less likely given the relative performances on the battlefield, in cyberspace, in info war, etc. >
  
  A heavily militarized/traumatized nation with a history of corruption and nationalism sharing a border with a crumbling former nuclear power will not lead to a very peaceful future. >
  
  Not if the traumatized nation properly rebuilds with support from like minded nations.
  No reason to obfuscate; the problem is russia and its nukes. >
  
  It’s starting to feel like April - august again which was the hardest time for Ukraine in this war so far. The artillery storm then has just been replaced by human wave tactics. It’s just that Russia has so much damn equipment. And it feels like they’re starting to learn a bit from their mistakes too. No more easy convoy and ammo dump hits. >
  
  It never got better, the war, for Ukrainians, it's not at that point yet. We just stopped hearing as many updates because they stopped causing outrage and instead became just sad. And depression doesn't get more clicks like outrage does. Right now Zelensky's visit got media excited to report from that again.
  Right now Ukraine has a surprisingly good fighting chance, no one expected Russia to screw up so badly early on, and Ukraine has, up to now, but missed a beat. But Russia still has massive weapons cache and a large amount of reserves to keep their pressure on. The wave tactics I don't know what you're talking about. This was the strategy from the start. And the Russians haven't changed to core of it. What's happened it's that Ukrainians are now pushing against highly entrenched Russian positions, and it's a slower push. Also we're in winter now, and climate is making a push very limited. It's not the push itself, but holding it afterwards, the weather makes it very hard to quickly set up a good enough base, which needs to be able to handle the cold. >
  
  This comment section is a great case study for dunning-kruger syndrome from people who don't actually follow the war and get their opinions from headlines >
  
  Yeah for sure >
  
  This must be so hard to endure, I can't imagine having to fight just to have your freedom, and I can't believe there is still war in 2023... I guess as long as dickheads live, these things will keep happening... >
  
  We don't need to wait until those dickheads die.  We can defund Russia's war by boycotting India, China and any other nation that continues to feed Russia's war machine with cash and parts. >
  
  Have you heard of The Tuttle Twin Books? The next Putin is in 2nd grade and being groomed. >
  
  Find him and eat him