took Americans 6 weeks to take Baghdad against Iraq. the force quality imbalance there was even higher, abrams and apaches vs t-72s. dont buy into the memes that this should have been over in 2 days.
If Russia was fucking up as bad as they say, wouldnt Ukraine need to arm every male 18-60, foreign fighters, "situation desperate" and etc.
Russia may also be trying to be careful about destroying civilian stuff. There has been a huge effort to paint it otherwise but if you consider there is a narrative that Ukraine has armed all its civilians to attack and then is complaining if Russia fights civilians and considering that stray bombs will hit buildings in any war, there has not been a lot of legit looking damage to civilian areas. In fact much of the early propaganda about bombs hitting Kiev seems to have been all fake.
Russia offered to leave Ukraine alone in exchange for DOnbas and Crimea and a promise of neutrality from Ukraine, that might have been what Russia wanted all along, not a total occupation, just Donbas and Crimea which have mostly people that wanted to leave Ukraine anyway.
took Americans 6 weeks to take Baghdad against Iraq. the force quality imbalance there was even higher, abrams and apaches vs t-72s. dont buy into the memes that this should have been over in 2 days.
If Russia was fucking up as bad as they say, wouldnt Ukraine need to arm every male 18-60, foreign fighters, "situation desperate" and etc.
Russia may also be trying to be careful about destroying civilian stuff. There has been a huge effort to paint it otherwise but if you consider there is a narrative that Ukraine has armed all its civilians to attack and then is complaining if Russia fights civilians and considering that stray bombs will hit buildings in any war, there has not been a lot of legit looking damage to civilian areas. In fact much of the early propaganda about bombs hitting Kiev seems to have been all fake.
i think that was the intent, with the original invasion plan. longer this goes on the more Kiev will look like Grozny
yeah they are looking at an Iran or North Korea like future.
Russia offered to leave Ukraine alone in exchange for DOnbas and Crimea and a promise of neutrality from Ukraine, that might have been what Russia wanted all along, not a total occupation, just Donbas and Crimea which have mostly people that wanted to leave Ukraine anyway.
Ukraine offered that at today's negotiations. Russia refused and asked for complete surrender.
guess now that they have all the sanctions anyway they are going for broke.