Quote (ferdia @ 26 Nov 2023 17:40)
What alarms me is what we have already outlined repeatedly:
1. Ukraine's Military spending comprises almost 35% of GDP - that puts an incredible strain on Ukraine combined with Borrowing 170billion+ without the means to pay it back. Yes Russia is also increasing its military spending (by, ALOT) but it has more resources to do this.
3. Inability to achieve stated goals of liberating / claiming Eastern Ukraine and Crimea and at the same time seeking any victory inevitably will lead to escalation. Yes Russia has not taken over all of Ukraine and Invaded Poland yet, but there is no evidence to support this was its goal.
4. Being dictated by allies on when the war will end, carrying out a counter offensives against fortified positions, all the while a massive drop in population over 2 years. Russia has stated its goals and right now they are simply more achievable then Ukraine's goals.
==> I posted this few days ago:
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=92094408&f=119&p=654429005Quote (Meanwhile @ 21 Nov 2023 13:44)
An openly revisionist regime fundamentally hostile to the West
“There have been times in the history of our country when it had to step back, but only to move forward after gathering its forces,” Vladimir Putin said on 2022 June 9. During an exchange with young entrepreneurs, organized on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great, the Russian President estimated that Russia was facing the same challenges. Since that time "almost nothing has changed", he said, explaining that "Peter the Great led the Northern War for 21 years. One might have the impression that by fighting Sweden, he had torn something. He did not tear anything but restored [...]. Obviously, it is also up to us to restore and strengthen". When Peter the Great founded Saint Petersburg, Vladimir Putin continued, "no European state recognized this territory as Russian, all considered it Swedish." These remarks by the Russian President are part of a series of revisionist statements. After annexing Crimea in 2014, he publicly questioned the borders of Ukraine and other states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). In June 2020, he suggested that the successor states of the Soviet Union had to return the “territorial gifts received from the Russian people” when they joined the USSR. On February 21, he accused the Ukrainian leaders of having "pocketed territories received not only during the Soviet era but also from the Russian Empire."
2. Do you want to cancel assistance to Ukraine so Putin will end up in assassinating its governement next year ?
4. Are you realizing that, as a warlord, Putin will never give up what he started, any sign of weakness is death for him ?
6. Do you want to let these criminals to get free without even paying back the war damage ?
Stop believing the lies from those leeches.