General Discussion

that would include YOU no doubt... pushing all the MAGA / Putin talking points.

The reality is that Russia is not making that much progress in the last 2 years. Russia is losing something like 1500 soldiers a day all along the front... so many that they had to call for North Koreans to help fill in the ranks.

Russian military leaders are LOSING the war. The Sanctions ( always too weak ) are starting to actually work.

The civilian Russians at home are finally feeling the pain... and no longer doing "Z" rallies and thinking that Ukraine is a bunch of "Nazis". People are tired of Putin... and tired of being afraid to say they are tired of all this. They had a small taste of western Europe style freedom between the Soviets and Putin... and they liked the freedom... but they didn't like the loss of empire, the loss of status ( as the world's number 2 ), and especially they didn't like the economic disaster and the long bread lines.

Wars are won when the populations of the waring countries support the war.

Putin successfully mind hacked enough MAGAs here to get them to support people like Trump and Vance and Faux News and Tucker Carlson and the mindset that Ukraine is to blame ( somehow ) for the war and that Russia is the ideal world leader of white Christians ( complete with anti trans, anti immigration, anti DEI, anti homosexual themes. No diversity tolerated). Ignoring the long standing suppression of their own native ( mostly ethnic asian ) populations to the vast east of their country.

WW2 took about 5 and a half years to defeat the Germans and Italians... and the Allies not only had the USA materials, they had the entire western world combatants and resources. Ukraine has only western Europe and USA weapons and some humanitarian aide and they have fought a much larger army to a standstill while also inflicting much larger casualties on the Russians, mostly using their own technology ( the highly effective drone tech ).

They also are fighting for their own homeland. Ukraine will never be part of Russia. Not even the parts that have a large population of ethnic Russians. Putin will need to continue the war he started until all Ukrainians are dead. Putin know this even if you do not. If you had bothered to meet any Ukrainian men ( I have ) you would know this.

but continue with your "expert" opinion.

Good thing you weren't around to recommend a negotiated settlement with Hitler in 1942. Although there were quite a few like you in the USA at that time.