Unless the rest of the West is going to help Ukraine like France helped America win its revolution, it's just a matter of time. Dictatorships, like Russia is, don't have to worry about unpopular wars and elections, like America did with Vietnam.
That said, I'm not sure the war is actually unpopular in Russia, it's hard to tell.
Yea, this is my issue being so far away and no reliable anything, I can only view the reports provided and put faith in them or not. But from those reports the majority of russians are behind this.
And given the past 30+ years what has happened on the world stage with respect to Russia, it makes a great deal of sense that they are aware of how the evil projected from the west must be stopped.
I think that any nation will come together when externally threatened, which they can legitimately say NATO expansion was doing. But it's not like there is reliable public opinion polling like Rasmussen or something we can look at.
Less than a 1/3 of the weapons sent actually make it to the front. Russia has the world's most natural resources. The rest of the world can't commit troops without risking escalation. And Russia has a fairly robust intelligence system itself.
Russia takes over Donbass, which already has a population in support of Russia, and some more of the east of the Ukraine, giving itself a Black Sea port.
If you define that as a "win" then yes.
Unless the rest of the West is going to help Ukraine like France helped America win its revolution, it's just a matter of time. Dictatorships, like Russia is, don't have to worry about unpopular wars and elections, like America did with Vietnam.
That said, I'm not sure the war is actually unpopular in Russia, it's hard to tell.
Yea, this is my issue being so far away and no reliable anything, I can only view the reports provided and put faith in them or not. But from those reports the majority of russians are behind this.
And given the past 30+ years what has happened on the world stage with respect to Russia, it makes a great deal of sense that they are aware of how the evil projected from the west must be stopped.
I think that any nation will come together when externally threatened, which they can legitimately say NATO expansion was doing. But it's not like there is reliable public opinion polling like Rasmussen or something we can look at.
Yea, I generally reject all american polls so not really sure what to say about russian polls :)
The West is pouring massive amounts of training, hardware, intelligence and funding into Ukraine. Russia has a medium and failing economy.
You think that Russia has any chance of winning this?
Less than a 1/3 of the weapons sent actually make it to the front. Russia has the world's most natural resources. The rest of the world can't commit troops without risking escalation. And Russia has a fairly robust intelligence system itself.
Russia takes over Donbass, which already has a population in support of Russia, and some more of the east of the Ukraine, giving itself a Black Sea port.
If you define that as a "win" then yes.