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The media won't give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that's true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large plethora of military resources?

PS: I realize there are many casualties on both sides and I am not trying to downplay the suffering, but I am curious as to how it is going for Ukraine. Right now I am hearing ever louder calls of Russia winning, those have existed forever, but they seem to have grown louder now, so I was wondering what you thought about it. Also, I am somewhat concerned of allowing a dictatorship to just erase at it's convenience a free and democratic country.

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[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ukraine is, slowly and painfully, gaining ground, so by that measure, they are winning.

Really? I was hearing the opposite all this while. PS: Slowly and very painfully, fuck, I wish there was an end to this war and we could return to status quo!

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was hearing the opposite all this while.

From where? There are multiple, reasonably reputable maps available that show the lines, and regardless of who the map makers support, they have to be accurate because of how easily they can be proven wrong if they make false claims.

Besides, much like Vietnam, or the many wars in Afghanistan, victory won't happen on the battlefield, it will happen when the invader finally gets tired of paying the price of war.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

From where?

Indian media mainly, I haven't explored out of the Indian media bubble though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I know they've historically been close to Russia, I didn't realise they still had so much support.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

India is absolutely leaning (hard) towards Russia. They probably never bought gas/oil and fertiliser so cheap.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I watch this channel for daily updates: https://youtube.com/@RFU

It obviously leans pretty heavily pro-Ukrainian, but it seems to do the daily updates accurately enough from the times Iโ€™ve double checked.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might be stuck in an alt right algorithm.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tankie is to liberals as woke is to conservatives but y'all aren't ready for that conversation

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tankie seems more targeted then woke. Woke is everything left of Reagan sometimes.

Tankie is, at it's most general, anyone supporting authoritarian measures for "left" wing reasons.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As if. I seen someone call JT tankie in that famous Hasan clip.

It's literally just "you're to the left of me and I don't like it"

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jt does support statist solutions. I mean so do I so yeah he's not a tankie to me, but for some anarchy is the only acceptable end game.

Again it's not generally a "too left" thing, but "too authoritarian" thing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

From euronews news bulletins I know Ukraine has crossed the dnipro and cleared a stable bridge head to get more troops to that russian occupied side. Also they said that nuklear reactor the russians occupied, near the front, is in danger again, because it has been cut off from electricity and had to run gasoline generators to cool it.

This shows ukraine is advancing slowly.