• Triasha@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    They absolutely can.

    Russia has thousands of men willing to fight in horrendous conditions.

    A few thousand soldiers that are very well equipped might lose to 10x as many badly equipped enemies.

    I think they would lose, but they might not think so.

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          It’s about search engine squatting, if you now search “Russia meatgrinder” you get that, instead of articles about losing the war.

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          I mean it is so ridiculous on so many levels but also the gifts themselves are so absurd. If some of their high up elites just skipped a single dinner, they could probably buy something that is worth 10x more. The ruling class became so addicted to their money that they can’t even sacrifice a minute fraction of it for proper propaganda lol.

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      Russia has thousands of men willing to fight in horrendous conditions.

      They’ve got hundreds of thousands of conscripts who are largely dug in along an enormous front, along the four eastern most seized Oblasts in Ukraine.

      Any attack they would make into a NATO state would be an artillery bombardment intended to deny Ukrainians resupply, not a ground invasion to secure territory. Particularly not when they have poor control over their own borders and a nasty instance of counter-insurgence popping up in and around their major cities.