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Stalemate is when one side kidnaps people off the street to die within a month, while the other side uses one year renewable contracts.

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“Russia bad, keeps people in military for all year while Ukraine only for month.”

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when was it ever a stalemate? is that what they’ve been deluding themselves with?

Russia has just been bleeding Ukraine and NATO the whole time i thought

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Well you see there have been no Big Arrow Movestm for a while, so clearly it is a stalemate and Russia isn’t just pursuing a strategy of steady attrition which infinitely favors them.

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yeah but you gotta pivot the narrative somehow

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At what point was this a stalemate? The eventual outcome was obvious about 2 weeks in. I remember thinking that surely Russia’s capacity to actually do the production needed for this war was more important than American financial dominance, but I kept hearing otherwise from all of the news. I was shocked to see that I was clearly right and I was being lied to, again.

This happens to me all of the time. It’s like when the news kept telling me that any day now the ghettos of Caracas would rise up and demand the privatization of Venezuela’s oil fields. I kept thinking it didn’t make any sense and I must be missing something. Turns out I was right again.

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Being a socialist means having Cassandra’s Curse

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It was never a stalemate, but while the war was in the attrition phase calling it a stalemate was a convenient narrative to keep drumming up support for it.

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This entire war was a useless bullshit excuse for NATO countries and arms dealers to dump their military surplus and profit off of the needless slaughter of tens of thousands of people on both sides using Ukranian civilians to fight a proxy war with Putin. This utter waste of life would never have happened if the west didn’t interfere in Ukrainian politics in the early 2010s, or allowed peace talks to occur unobstructed between Russia and Ukraine in the early days of the war. Total deaths on both sides now is estimated to be 1 million people and a lot of Ukraine has been destroyed. How fucked is this.

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It hasn’t even begun to be fucked

Wait until the blowback from shipping Nazis an arsenal

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