You’d think the russians would remember the lesson of Stalingrad, especially given that they TAUGHT that lesson: you can’t conquer a city or a country when you give the population itself every reason to stay and fight. You can grind it to paste, but even then you can’t win: the populace will hide in the paste and keep fighting. As soon as they did the ‘look, we’ve got you surrounded, no escape’ to ukraine, they lost. The fake ceasefires that end in refugees being gunned down, the invitation for refugees to flee, either on routes sending them to russia or into minefields, all this just cements in the mind of the ukrainian people that they might as well die at home rather than die fleeing. It’s just a cherry on the top of this shit sundae that the invaders are invading with korean war era gear, expired rations, insufficient ammo, low fuel tanks, etc.
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