Ukraine isn’t mountainous terrain that’s hard to navigate both on foot and with even modern aircraft. It isn’t a subsistence economy that has been at war for a thousand years. It isn’t home to people who made a life raiding into India for women and livestock, fierce mountain vikings, even before becoming the graveyard of empire as they cut their teeth on three world powers in a row, getting stronger with each they drove out, generation by generation. These are farmers and programmers and project managers, who are dying in trenches on a flat field as surely as the Flemmish before Germans in WWI, and yes, the line can hold forever, but it takes X lives every day to make that happen, and there’s no endgame where Russia gives in, because it needs the fresh water from the non-Crimea shit to hold Crimea, which has no rivers, and their whole Black Sea naval operation is out of there, and they’re not going to cede the whole Black Sea.
Ukraine isn’t mountainous terrain that’s hard to navigate both on foot and with even modern aircraft. It isn’t a subsistence economy that has been at war for a thousand years. It isn’t home to people who made a life raiding into India for women and livestock, fierce mountain vikings, even before becoming the graveyard of empire as they cut their teeth on three world powers in a row, getting stronger with each they drove out, generation by generation. These are farmers and programmers and project managers, who are dying in trenches on a flat field as surely as the Flemmish before Germans in WWI, and yes, the line can hold forever, but it takes X lives every day to make that happen, and there’s no endgame where Russia gives in, because it needs the fresh water from the non-Crimea shit to hold Crimea, which has no rivers, and their whole Black Sea naval operation is out of there, and they’re not going to cede the whole Black Sea.
The funniest thing about you neolibs is the casual islamophobia from the DEI set… not even islamophobia here, I suppose, since they were Buddhists for half the history above… anti-Pashtun accomplishment? Afghanistan is literally known as the graveyard of empire for good reason. You can’t point to them as equivalent to Ukraine, a very post-industrial country, with no specific multi-generational warrior culture, on a flat plain where the primary obstacle for oncoming tanks is mud. The Russians will not be caught in Ukraine forever, they’ll gain mile by mile until we negotiate a worse peace than we could have had a 100,000+ dead ago.
I don’t think it’s hard to understand that people who have been raised for generations with the constant presence of war and weapons from a subsistence economy would be better at doing endless war than IT consultants used to having iPhones and electricity, but I guess I’m wrong? Also, do you not get how mountains work?
Ukraine isn’t mountainous terrain that’s hard to navigate both on foot and with even modern aircraft. It isn’t a subsistence economy that has been at war for a thousand years. It isn’t home to people who made a life raiding into India for women and livestock, fierce mountain vikings, even before becoming the graveyard of empire as they cut their teeth on three world powers in a row, getting stronger with each they drove out, generation by generation. These are farmers and programmers and project managers, who are dying in trenches on a flat field as surely as the Flemmish before Germans in WWI, and yes, the line can hold forever, but it takes X lives every day to make that happen, and there’s no endgame where Russia gives in, because it needs the fresh water from the non-Crimea shit to hold Crimea, which has no rivers, and their whole Black Sea naval operation is out of there, and they’re not going to cede the whole Black Sea.
What absolutely bizarre hagiography.
The funniest thing about you neolibs is the casual islamophobia from the DEI set… not even islamophobia here, I suppose, since they were Buddhists for half the history above… anti-Pashtun accomplishment? Afghanistan is literally known as the graveyard of empire for good reason. You can’t point to them as equivalent to Ukraine, a very post-industrial country, with no specific multi-generational warrior culture, on a flat plain where the primary obstacle for oncoming tanks is mud. The Russians will not be caught in Ukraine forever, they’ll gain mile by mile until we negotiate a worse peace than we could have had a 100,000+ dead ago.
Absolutely bizarre fascist-style warrior-culture rhetoric.
I don’t think it’s hard to understand that people who have been raised for generations with the constant presence of war and weapons from a subsistence economy would be better at doing endless war than IT consultants used to having iPhones and electricity, but I guess I’m wrong? Also, do you not get how mountains work?