HAHAHAH oh yeah im sure the promise of mighty russian help is gonna mean so dang much after this last month.
They could give them intel, that's it. There's just no land corridor for them to ship military supplies through.
they did succeed in conquering most of donbass and almost the entire azov coast except for a tiny pocket of resistance in mariupol. if they simply fortify and dig in on the territory they control right now, they can probably force ukraine to accept a peace deal that gives a ton of territorial concessions to russia, either in the form of more breakaway republics or outright annexiation to russia itself.
Hey you know your not allowed to remember what the speds here were posting a couple weeks ago.
Problem like I said earlier tho is that getting an "inconclusive" result at best in the end of this shitshow considering how much stock russia has placed on its military might schtick both in terms of funding and in terms of international reputation (and hell arms sales for that matter) and at a massive ass cost that may well be an existential tumor for russia going forwards, is effectively sill a major strategic defeat
I mean in donbas they've been forced back. Around the sea of Azoz it's been more successful. But realistically this war ends with a divided Ukraine one that's pro Russian and one that's pro west basically.
This sounds more like him trying to play all sides than anything else.
>ZOG #resisting fighters for white western civilisation against da globohomo
Gee I wonder why he didnt just hold out for the promised russian military support that would totally allow him to conquer all of the balkans...
Eh this sounds to me more like him trying to save his own ass because he knows that most Serbs hate NATO for obvious reasons and this was going to bite him in the ass come election time.
The NATO weaponry the Ukrainians have gotten has mostly been old shit these countries were dumping, some like the Czechs who just sent them soviet tanks from the 70's. Also, saying they've failed on every level to win the war is just wrong and detached from reality.. They've destroyed the vast majority of Mariupol's forces and are preparing to do the same in the Donbas which is where the majority of Ukraine's forces are.
I don't agree that Russia has failed to win at every level, after all the southern front is going well for them. But I don't buy one bit Kyiv, and at this point the entire northeastern front, was a feint or a ruse. I believe taking Kyiv was in truth the primary objective, a Plan A, and now they're going for a landbridge to Crimea and Donbass, which is obviously a massive reduction in their war goals.
Intel and cyber capabilities, hypersonic missile strikes, embedded advisors, etc. And you know how fast allegiances change in that region. Montenegrins have been quite unhappy about being in NATO recently, for example.
Oh hey, called that one a few days ago.
It's amazing how trying to save one's own ass sounds pretty similar in any language.
"they don't blackmail me personally, but they blackmail serbia"
"President Alexander Vucic admitted that the country voted for Russia's withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) because of the blackmail of the West. His words cites
I mean if I had to guess it is to play the victim which should drum up morale in Russia and instead of forcing conscripts convince them to fight willingly for the Russian cause. To people in the west it may seem like a show of weakness but I am sure in Russia this will inspire people to fight, which is not the worst thing they could do strategically.
Politicians don't really change from one country to another that much. One of the reasons I'm so critical of democracy is that it boils leadership decisions down to seat retention.
