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  How can they take on NATO, surely not possible
context: And it's going to get a LOT tougher still in a few weeks when the expected massive offense is going to start.
  Russians don't seem too bothered taking all those losses, I wonder how much longer the Ukranians can keep it up. >
  
  Honestly this is very serious. A war of attrition favours Russia due to population size. This has happened basically like I thought it would.... Russia rush in but don't achieve decapitation strike  western help and intel allows a counterstrike, but Russia digs in and galvanises its resources. They're talking 500k troops. If we use history as our guide then we know when Russia is at war they will not cave in due to troop losses, no way. My belief is this will get extremely serious. We are sending Serious weapons intel and money, and Ukraine are hyper invested and focused. Russia is also fully invested and about to have another push. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the Ukrainian line cracks soon. That said, Russia may not be able to capitalise on a breakthrough because of the weapons, supply, tactics and intel we send. 
  Tge losses are tough to follow because each side has its own inflated numbers of the other and reduced numbers for themselves. Russia has 3 times the population though. That said, invaders always lose more. It's a fkn mess. >
  
  It took the Russian 2 years to take back Aleppo in Syria. Everybody thought they were fucked but on the long run they just took it back. I am really afraid that’s what is gonna happen to Ukraine (and I hate this perspective). Hope it’s not gonna happen >
  
  There ~~wasn't~~ weren't crippling sanctions in place by that time. Also, they are fighting NATO equipment this time. In Siria it was civilians with kalashnikovs. Now their country is in the shit. They have gone back 50 years or so. Fuck them. >
  
  True. The 2 situations cannot be compared. Let’s hope Ukraine is gonna take over with the help of NATO. I would t like to see Russia win anything in this war >
  
  Something that's quite worrying is that countries like Norway are now ordering a lot new tanks. If the prospect was that the Ukraine war would end Russia as a threat, they would scale down rather than a massive scale-up.
  It doesn't matter how broken Russia is if they win. Cause NATO won't go on the offense. Russia can lick it's wound and recoup for as long as it takes, but the regenerating beast would now be even larger. Its only going to be a matter of time before Russia takes on NATO as a third world war, if they win in Ukraine.