Okay real talk? The Russians were falling on their face. Unfortunately they have the manpower and material to learn on the job. And that’s exactly what they’ve been doing. The big Russian gains recently also came during the 9 month drought the GOP inflicted on Ukraine’s weapons shipments.

So now there’s a situation where Ukrainian recruitment is down, Ukrainian manpower on the front line is below optimal, the Russians have re-learned how to actually do an assault, and the Russians have recently resupplied and reinforced via North Korea.

The situation did legitimately change.