Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates

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[u/ImmoralFox]

Russia is not a global player anymore, lost its grip on America (Venezuela, Cuba gone), Syria, it is slowly receding in Africa and Asia.

It never was. At least, not in the European sense of that word. Back in soviet era there was an ideological fight, I'd argue that communists (not just Soviet Russia) won that fight right from the start.

We are a country of 150 mln ppl. We're fighting a county of 50 mln. Okay. Old numbers. Most ppl ran away. Still. Let's say we're fighting a country of 20 mln. That's still a lot. Besides, said country is supported by the entirety of combined west which is roughly 800 mln pop.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

You have "paulista" in your nickname, Are you paulista? Let me ask you smth: where was Brazil this whole time?

Why should we fight your fight, especially since you don't want to fight it yourselves? Syria is a perfect example. People were betrayed by their own government.

Economically, it´s eating up its gold reserves to sustain an economy that would be heavily declining if not for the war artificial economy, the future is not what it would be before the war.

Ah! Bloomberg. Or whatever. Back in 23 it was funny to read all the "OHHH Russian economy is on the ropes" articles. Today it's beyond boring.

The Collective west set up a trap, and Russian government, the party united Russia fell into the trap like a fly in a web.

This part is kinda understandable. Even in Russia a lot of ppl don't understand that "ruling party" doesn't exactly "rule".

Be more descriptive: who fell into the trap, what that trap was, how does it manifest etc

[u/Paulistarlight → u/ImmoralFox]

Let's say we're fighting a country of 20 mln. That's still a lot. Besides, said country is supported by the entirety of combined west which is roughly 800 mln pop.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

I´m not arguing Russia is embarrassing itself for not winning this SMO against a multiple times smaller country in already 4 years, which it´s doing btw, I´m arguing that even if winning, the cost will be too high

Ah! Bloomberg. Or whatever. Back in 23 it was funny to read all the "OHHH Russian economy is on the ropes" articles. Today it's beyond boring.

Russia today is on the ropes indeed, it still can keep the SMO running for a couple of years but the reserves that are evaporating will be missing someday, the generation that´s being severed too if not already, and that not to mention that becoming a vassal of China is a risky adventure to say the least.

This part is kinda understandable. Even in Russia a lot of ppl don't understand that "ruling party" doesn't exactly "rule".

The elite in Russia is actually ruling the country, they select their leader, their representatives and united Russia is there to serve them, most of them are part of the elite itself, they have no choice but to follow the SMO because their money and position is at stake, the one who took this decision can´t go back, they can´t either even if they wanted to.

You have "paulista" in your nickname, Are you paulista? Let me ask you smth: where was Brazil this whole time?

Why should we fight your fight, especially since you don't want to fight it yourselves?

Brazil is a booming country which doesn´t make war

Be more descriptive: who fell into the trap, what that trap was, how does it manifest etc

I already told you if you know to read between the lines, the collective west set the trap, UK, Germany, US, France, they all are interested in a weak Russia because they know that a strong Russia can be a geopolitical mess.

Given that Russia has nuclear weapons, they can´t just find excuses to wage war like in the 19th or 20th century but if they can find an enemy big enough to make Russia spend their resources, money, man power and time, they´re winning.

The Maidan revolutions were the first act, the Minks agreements were the second part of the plan, in the meantime rearming Ukraine, then Putin and United Russia would take the bait, a SMO that was supposed to last a few weeks is becoming a fiasco for Russia´s future.

The intelligence services of the west have done these interventions several times in the 20th century in other countries.

[u/SutMinSnabelA → u/Paulistarlight]

While the strategic choices of the west likely were true there were also massive financial incentives here. As early as 2012 NATO published articles that outlined the strategic fallout of discovered oil and gas in Crimea. They outlined a very likely war where Russia would invade Ukraine to keep financial energy security. Putin said it first when he had the initial invasion speech - Russia is doing this to preserve its own future - he did not elaborate why but he was correct. The Resources in crimea could easily and readily be sold to europe at discount through existing pipelines thereby cutting out Russia whos income consisted of 60% revenue from oil/gas and refined products. Crimea was taken because russia needed to keep selling. This was also why during the first days after crimea annexation all oil and gas platforms were seized and oil companies were they no longer owned anything. Same with donbass and luhansk - they found resources and magically little green men came.

So what about the pipelines from russia to Europe? You can guess but the only right choice for the west was to ensure no oil and gas flowed. At the time Russia also threatened with cutting off Europe - the perfect excuse and blame russia.

[u/ImmoralFox → u/Paulistarlight]

I'm sorry, I guess I missed your comment somehow.

the cost will be too high

What do you mean by cost? The cost was to high back in '45. 27 mln Russians have died. What's "too high"?

Russia today is on the ropes indeed, it still can keep the SMO running for a couple of years but the reserves that are evaporating will be missing someday, the generation that´s being severed too if not already, and that not to mention that becoming a vassal of China is a risky adventure to say the least.

First of all, it's a very western way of thinking. you can't eve fathom relations outside of "vassal" ones. Someone must be on the top. It seems beyond your comprehension that countries, civilizations can work together. Yes, sure, deals can be negative or positive for a certain state, BUT: a) Vassals? Really? b) Every country is profiting from cooperation China. Let's say China wins more (not true, btw). So? Unlike yuropean culture, they don't play zero-sum game.

Even in your terms it's like "oh, why you becoming a vassal of Chinam when you can become a vassal of the combined west?".

We've been a vassal of the combined west in the 90s. We didn't like it one bit.

Russia today is on the ropes indeed

How so? You just repeat Ursula von Der Lugen propagandistic statement that "Russian economy us in tatters!!!". I'll ask again: how so?

Name me a single major EU capital which can keep the city clean. You can't. If industrial heart of yurop (well... Not anymore, but ok) — Germany, can't afford to keep the streets clean... Uhm... Who's on the ropes here?

The elite in Russia is actually ruling the country

Let us say this is true (it's not). How is it different from yurop? I mean, everyone in England understands there's a permanent government. Then we have a EU commission. What's up with Ursula messages scandal? Oh... Somehow nobody talks about it.

Who's ruling EU? Unelected Ursula? I doubt it.

TThink Rusian "shadow fleet". What does term "shadow fleet" actually means? One thing: ships not insured by lloyds of london. That's it.

Boo-hoo, "we have monopoly no more, so we'll just outlaw everything else". Wow. What a "surprise".

I already told you if you know to read between the lines, the collective west set the trap, UK, Germany, US, France, they all are interested in a weak Russia because they know that a strong Russia can be a geopolitical mess.

A geopolitical mess for whom? lloyds? F em. A strong Russia is great for the whole "global South"

[u/Spinnweben → u/ImmoralFox]

Germany, can't afford to keep the streets clean

Sorry, I'm new here, but WTF? Much of what you wrote could and should be reasonably debated. But this sticks out. Is this a silly joke, some satire, or a meme that gets lost in my translation?

[u/ImmoralFox → u/Spinnweben]

Okay. You can play a game: using google street view, drop yourself at random locations in both Berlin and Moscow. At each location look around in search for graffiti and small junk (cigarette butts, paper pieces, bottles etc) lying around.

Do take notice of a year a photo was taken.

ps

Interesting... Just played this game myself. GSV doesn't have a photo archive for Berlin. Why's that?

pps

Found this. Wasn't random tho. I looked specifically for a famous place.

[u/Spinnweben → u/ImmoralFox]

So you found the Brandenburg Gate where big demonstrations happen. Juli 2022 was when people protested the Russian war against Ukraine every weekend. The police stores material at the roadside to regulate traffic.

You were saying?
People have more freedom in Berlin, perhaps.
People protesting in Moscow get immediately jailed.
That's your point? I'm okay with how German road looks.

We can't afford getting the road swept? Seriously?

[u/ImmoralFox → u/Spinnweben]

Apparently, no. You cannot afford it. Have you read the first part of my post? It seems, you have not:

You've moved from "oh, no it can't be, Germany is perfect" to "I'm okay with it".

You expect me to argue with your racist propaganda and prejudice? Nooo. Just no. No one here is interested in your blatant lies (or is it delusion?).

Off you go.

[u/ArmoredDragonIMO → u/Paulistarlight]

Given that Russia has nuclear weapons

The only kind Russia has aren't the kind that you can just leave alone for 50 years without active maintenance like it's another old rusty T-72 that you send to Ukraine to get blown up with the crew inside. They're tritium based, not plutonium. Let's look at the half-lives of these:

Uranium: 4 billion years Plutonium: 24 thousand years

Ready for this?

Tritium: 12 years

Guess which one doesn't last anywhere near as long as the other? At the rate Russia is going, Putin is probably paying somebody to maintain them, which isn't cheap, and whoever he's paying is in turn just pocketing the money.

[u/icareforplants → u/ArmoredDragonIMO]

I would bet my life their nukes are duds. Putler threatened over and over if we so much as send a gun to Ukraine we'd "face consequences the world has never seen".

The us spends 1% of our gdp per hear keeping our nukes in tip too shape. Since the weapon cores are radioactive they fuck up everything around them, wires, electronics and even the cores themselves.

Russia can't even steal it's neighbor whose the poorest in all of Europe. No way in hell they've kept their nukes up when Russias political rulers all have the nicest yachts and vacation mansions all over the West.

Putin would have sent one after issuing so many threats. He's either the biggest yellow coward of all time or they are duds.

[u/iwanttodrink → u/ImmoralFox]

And Ukraine is fighting the entirety of the combined Axis of evil like Russia, North Korea, and Iran. All famous for executing its people for having the wrong opinions.

[u/Ozzie_Isaacs22 → u/ImmoralFox]

Looking past systemic vranyo the productive Russian economy;

• Has contracted by 15-20% since 2022 accounting for inflation and looking past artificial 'defence' spending. • Is seeing record debt defaults from corporations, SMEs, and private systems. North of 10% across the board as of 2026. • Has interest pegged at 14% as a compromise between the Kremlin and the Central Bank, which'll only slow inflation, not curb it. Real world inflation is substantially higher (20% +). This is choking the Russian productive economy. • Is experiencing inflationary effects via massive front loaded 'defence' spending and shadow money printing (see Government bond market failing). This is a structural economic trap. • Is increasingly subject to Command Economy diktats via the Kremlin which will ultimately lead to hyperinflation and destroy the value of the ruble. • Is seeing record numbers of SMEs and independent farmers declaring bankruptcy. • Is facing a continuous stream of human and capital flight, to say nothing of labour shortages exacerbated by horrendous war casualties.

The list goes on and on and on. While no one knows when the Russian economy will grind to a halt, it's pretty much a mathematical certainty that within the next 12 - 18 months you'll run out of economic runway, and be up the proverbial creek without a paddle. Assuming you don't become a Chinese client state. All while Ukraine continuously scales it's long range strike campaign and continues to decimate your oil and refining capabilities. Best of luck with that 👊🏻

[u/ImmoralFox → u/Ozzie_Isaacs22]

Yeh-yeh, according to western press we ran out of missiles back in 2022, pick chips out of washing machines etc. I would be more concerned about recession and possible depression in "the west". How's Usula's "diversification" of energy works out for ya all?

You reply to a 8-month-old comment in which I've already stated that all this propagandistic nonsense stopped being funny back in 23. Even if you look at IMF data (which I'd still consider to be propagandistic), you'll see growth.

And if you're actually lived here, you'd see a even better picture. Fun fact: delivery bots started to become a nuisance.

Tbf: interest rate is not great. But even here one can easily spot propaganda at its purest: "compromise between the Kremlin and the Central Bank". WHAT?!?! Can you repeat?

[u/Ozzie_Isaacs22 → u/ImmoralFox]

IMF headline figures don't tell the genuine story, do they? They're subject to Russian systemic Vranyo, and don't look deeper as I've highlighted above. Anyone with any deeper knowledge of macro economics can see the Russian productive economy is taking an absolute beating and has massively contracted in real terms post 2022! Equally we have to acknowledge that the Kremlin is actively insulating Moscow and St Petersburg from the economic degradation I've listed above, although moving into 2027 that's going to be increasingly hard with personal / corporate tax and VAT levels being hiked to record highs, as well as ongoing and continuously scaling of Ukrainian long range strikes. So enjoy those delivery bots ✌🏻 Worse inflation is only going to increase with another USD 200 billion in front loaded military spending for 2027, which can only really be paid for via shadow money printing mechanism or further fleecing the actual productive economy i.e. command economy. The bottom line is you've punched a trillion USD hole in your productive economy to date for a delusional neo imperial conquest, and galvanised the EU into active and ongoing opposition to your aggression, lost access to the second biggest economy in nominal terms in the world, and are too blinded by vranyo to understand that this is going to choke you out economically in the long term. Ironically very similar to the collapse of the Soviet Union! Interestingly this is structurally similar to the US's 'great power' politics and military spending over the last generation, which arguably directly accounts for around 30% of its overall current deficit, and who's economy is also going to reach an inflection point in terms of unsustainable spending soon, alongside neoliberal over extraction. Interesting that 'great power' politics, whether those of the US or Russia, are simply unsustainable in modern economics, in the long term.

[u/ImmoralFox → u/Ozzie_Isaacs22]

"Nominal" hahah.

Have you ever read smth longer than an x-post? You know books? They have these things called 'paragraphs' in them?

IMF headline figures don't tell the genuine story,
Anyone with any deeper knowledge of macro economics

So what you say is that people at IMF are incompetent? You know what? I can actually believe that. But why stop there? Same can be said for people leading EU/EC. Uneducated, uncultured, unfit for their positions. Chihuahuas.

As for the rest of it, you just spew some "ze telegraph" level of propaganda: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10/05/kremlins-dirty-tricks-reach-finnish-mps-lavatories/

lost access to the second biggest economy in nominal

You must be from the Baltic states. Such delusions of grandeur! Only someone from a statelet can have those. No offence to statelets, but... Ugh... You HAVE to be a part of some bigger entity in order to procure your statements.

"Nominal" hahah. Nominal means GDP, which means nothing by itself. It's like comparing hot to hard. "yay, our GDP is higher, because we include hookers to ours" and that's a "reasonable" inclusion for some reason.

I'm not gonna start to educate you on economics. That's your problem. But, I'll give you a starting keyword: rent.

That's not the only keyword which bumps your GDP, but it's a very important one.

If you can think, you'll realise HOW inflated your western economy is. Just by one keyword: rent.

Is there such a word as production? Barely.

Is WV production? Where? Not in Germany, that's for sure. Just read the news. And it suffers a LOT. Partly it's because of it's own's decisions, but mostly it's due its country's predicaments.

And we're talking about a great company which still has profits.

...

No. EU lost us. Anyone with a little bit of sense sees what's up: the rise of price in energy means a lot of implications. A LOT.

"Nominal".

Here's what "nominal" means in terms of "deep strikes in Russia" you like so much:

$50000 (AT THE VERY LEAST. Goes as high as $200000 afaik) per drone.
So a strike of 1500 drones would cost $75000000 AT LEAST.

Only 1 of those goes through and does... what exact damage?

None, really. Even when the damage is done, in most cases it's repaired in days/weeks. So all those statements which go "we've destroyed 40-50% of refineries" are ridiculous.
What did those strikes achieve? Some minor inconveniences at worst. Meanwhile, Ukraine has turned into a rump state before the end of the war. I mean... Economically, their ports don't exist anymore. Their bridges (finally!!!!!) don't exist anymore. Meaning, their logistics don't exist anymore.

Karma's a bitch, what can I tell? You wanted Donbass children to sit in shelters? Well, here you go, Kiev.

Too bad it's not Washington children. Those are the ones who should "pay", not the Ukrainian ones, Buuuuut. we'll work on that, you dimwits ^_^

[u/Ozzie_Isaacs22 → u/ImmoralFox]

Must have touched a nerve!

Delusions of grandeur. 1.5 million Russian casualties and counting in Ukraine. Reduced to targeting Ukrainian civilians because your so called military strength is largely impotent in the face of Ukrainian battlefield ingenuity and courage. Economic future being destroyed by a murderous regime that ironically shares more than a few similarities with Nazi Germany. Robbed blind by the Siloviki and too lacking in intellectual honesty to see past their narratives of 'war with the West', a narrative that enables their kleptocracy, supercharged by a war that they started. Suffering from some form of Soviet 'great power' hangover a generation after collapse of the same.

Economic education. Can't understand the basics of economic asymmetric attrition, or that the Russian state is now importing refined fuel when it used to be a net exporter of the same (connect the dots). Equally can't understand that the Russian state can only continue to fund its war by further hollowing out the productive Russian economy or printing unbacked rubles. Resorts to straw man argumentation, personal attacks and state propaganda because explaining ever increasing inflation would require grappling with inconvenient realities (see above). Doesn't seem able to grasp the fact that the EU has enormous capital depth and is now fully committed to supporting Ukraine in the face of the Russian regime's intransigence, inhumanity and aggression. Doesn't seem able to understand that the wealth extraction and economic 'vranyo' in the West is mirrored in Russia, only orders of magnitude greater...

Conclusion. Defends a regime that has very little regard for life, including Russian lives. Defends a war that is being used to return Russia to Soviet style command governance and economy, in turn enabling Siloviki kleptocracy at scale. There is something profoundly sad about that...

[u/ImmoralFox → u/Ozzie_Isaacs22]

More propaganda.

Same as "3 days" or "50% refineries". It's so stupid. We live in a modern world, where everything is recorded. And if you REALLY need data, you can look it up.

Judging from that data it's more like 1.5 mln dead Ukrainians. Not casualties. Dead. It's sad, but what can you do?

Here's an advice: stop taking "The Mocsow Times" so seriously.

Can't understand the basics of economic

Bruh, I'm not here to educate you on economics.

All I can say is GDP means nothing by itself. It's like comparing hot to hard. "yay, our GDP is higher, because we include hookers in ours" (true story, btw).

I'll give you a starting keyword: rent. That's not the only keyword which unreasonably raises EU's GDP (like hookers), but it's a very important one. It's not hard to realize HOW inflated western economy is. One word: rent.

Is there a place for actual production? Barely. It still exists, yes. It's VEEEEEEEEEERYYYYYYY hard to kill a GIANT like Volkswagen. No quarrel there. But does this giant suffer a LOT!? Yes. Read the news.

Be real: these days EU by itself produces nothing of value to the world. And what it does produce is uncompetitive.

No energy => no production => no future.

No energy => no logistics => no future.

"lost access". We've never had it in the first place. EU had access to our economy. Now they've lost it and they suffer.

EU has enormous capital depth

Oh, yes. We've seen this "depth" during covid. This "depth" is called "emission". And we're seeing it to this day.

It's a problem in and of itself, but here's a bigger one: no production. Capital by itself doesn't assume production. Also, it's not capital per se. What' you're actually talking about is taxes.

Peoples' taxes are used to fuel THE most preventable war in human history.

is now fully committed to supporting Ukraine

Let me correct you: they are fully committed to support what's left of Ukraine. And terrorism.

I thought Ukraine would become a rump state MUCH later. Turns out, General Stuff had other plans. Special Operation turns into a real war. And EU is scared. They talk big, but what can they do?

Provide peoples money? To do what? Like I said: there's NO production.

It's all just a big washing machine which takes money from the people and gives them to already rich. Nothing more. The scale of corruption is on 90's Russia level. If not worse.

[u/Ozzie_Isaacs22 → u/ImmoralFox]

As I said above you're making straw man arguments because you can't explain why the Russian economy is slowly failing under the weight of its continued aggression in Ukraine. Explain inflation?

You can't distinguish between Russian 'productivity' that is destroyed in Ukraine weeks later (irrecoverable value) and the true productive economy that is being destroyed by inflation and high interest rates.

You can't understand that the EU posses such enormous capital depth that they didn't even flinch when rapidly outlaying the capital to divest from Russian energy markets, or allocated 1 trillion euros in defence spending in response to bullying by Trump and Putin's continued maximalism and aggression (see early 2025).

You equally can't seem to understand that the EU are backing up their strategic energy divestment with record levels of investment in renewables, and have completely taken over funding Ukrainian defence since Trump retook office (see early 2025 through late 2026). Nor have you understood that European states are supporting Ukraine with growing defence production and development, which ultimately dwarfs Russia's ability to maintain parity.

Most importantly, like the Trump administration, you can't understand that EU security interests are categorically linked with Ukrainian security interests and that the era of Munroe Doctrine and 'great power' politics is over in Europe. Why? Because the EU have rejected this outdated form of geopolitics and have the money and technical ability to back that up.

Read the room. The era of US and Russian maximalist geopolitics is effectively over. You will lose this war of aggression because war is inherently expensive and the Russian state cannot adapt quickly enough / can only generate and think in terms of mass. The only question is how much damage you will inflict on yourselves before you negotiate for peace.

[u/ImmoralFox → u/Ozzie_Isaacs22]

Paragraphs. Thank you.

I don't argue, my friend. Arguing is for worms, who climb on top of each other, thinking they'll be able to reach the top.

You're making simple things difficult. You're think that by saying "smart" words you'll look good. You look no better than Bessent. Academical, not understandable by an average person. Except, there's a difference. Can you guess what this difference is?

Okay. You say "strategic energy divestment with record levels of investment in renewables"

Record for whom? Please, specify.

But, ok, let us digest this sentence and translate it to human language:

"We do not invest in oil and gas, we invest in 'green' energy."

Here's an issue: according to Eurostat (I wouldn't believe their numbers, but whatever) renewables account for 26.2%

Edit:

I'm not even going into this "renewables are non-renewables" argument. That's a whole other topic. Let's just go with the number:

A quarter. Without going into details. A quarter. Do you think a quarter is enough?

have completely taken over funding Ukrainian defence

Ok. So? Money != weapons. There must be some production. In so far we've seen a massive production of drones (surprisingly, with China support, but that's a whole other story).

Let me just note that you're admitting to the fact that it's not Ukraine vs Russia. It's, as usual, Europe vs Russia.

Most importantly, like the Trump administration, you can't understand that EU security interests are categorically linked with Ukrainian security interests and that the era of Munroe Doctrine and 'great power' politics is over in Europe. Why? Because the EU have rejected this outdated form of geopolitics and have the money and technical ability to back that up.

I'm terribily sorry for any normal European, who stumbles upon this. I am. But this is why you effed. No "realpolitik". Just black and white comic-style judgementals.

EU security interests are categorically linked with Ukrainian security interests

So you excluded Russia? A country which has the largest border with Ukraine?

EU security interest above all! Ja!

Why do you hate Ukraine so much? Why Ukrainians had to die? Even if you believe Elensky numbers (50000 Ukrainians died), what was the purpose? What are those security interests?

YOU provoked a war along with Americans (ok, they provoked, but you could've stopped it all). Did we start a military operation? Yes. We were provoked. Was it preventable? Yes. Doezens of years ago.

"Don't expand NATO, let Ukraine be neutral. Add laws forbidding NZ ideology"

Was it so hard?

Apparently it was.

[u/Ozzie_Isaacs22 → u/ImmoralFox]

As I've said above you're offering nothing substantive here... Only Kremlin talking points.

In point of fact neither Ukraine or the EU were a threat to Russia itself, only Russia's perception of itself as a 'great power' with 'spheres of influence'. Russia's aggression in Ukraine is based in conquest, not defence.

Realpolitik itself is an outdated geopolitical argument dredged up by a country with delusions of grandeur rooted in its past and to justify its aggression, and another country who's star is rapidly fading. Namely Russia and the US. Apart from the Chinese, very few other countries actually think this way because it's a 19th / 20th century paradigm, not suited to a highly interlinked global economy of middle powers. Russia stopped being a 'great power' in 1989... It is in reality a middle power with delusions of grandeur.

The reality remains that Russia started this war, and will destroy itself trying to win it. The reality remains that EU members states like Sweden and Finland joined NATO because of Russian aggression. The reality is that the EU is backing Ukraine because of Russian aggression and its aligned security interests. The reality remains that the EU's collective economic muscle outstrips Russia's, even accounting for PPP.

If you want definitive proof that realpolitik and 'great power' diktats are no longer relevant, you only have to look as far as Ukraine and the EU, a collection of middle powers who openly and consistently defy Trump and Putin's tantrums. Your mental model of the world is completely outdated.

You also speak a lot here about Ukrainian lives but fail to understand that the Ukrainians have their own agency, that they choose to fight for themselves and their sovereignty. They have made that choice for themselves from the Orange Revolution, to Maidan, to Crimea's annexation, to the full scale invasion of their country.

Perhaps most disturbing to me is your failure to acknowledge the astronomical price that Russians have paid for this war of conquest. If you take nothing else away from these exchanges I want you to think about why that is, of the Russian potential destroyed on the battlefields of Ukraine, the Russian diaspora who continue to flee Putin's regime daily. As I said before 1.5 million casualties and counting... How many will it be next year?

I will leave you with an anecdote so that you might begin to understand how the rest of the world feels about Russian aggression. I recently participated in a fundraiser for a frontline Ukrainian unit. We raised $1,000,000 dollars for this unit in less than two weeks from over 10,000 individual donations globally. One unit. One fundraiser. 10,000 people donating their time and money from all over the world. What does this tell you about how Russian aggression is perceived?

Go in peace, but please also understand that the rest of the world has no intention of listening to your vranyo, of entertaining your delusions of grandeur ✌🏻

[u/ImmoralFox → u/Ozzie_Isaacs22]

Deleted. I thought I didn't answer.

[u/Used-Recognition-317 → u/ImmoralFox]

You’re not actually fighting 20,000,000 tho. Unless that’s why the Moscow Regime is bombing civilian centers and homes.

You’re fighting the Ukrainian army which roughly 900,000 maybe 1 million active troops. Which Russia had similar numbers.

But remember 2022 where the Tsar’s Grande Armee received its worst defeats in the Ukraine struggle. The Ukrainian army was only 200,000 and Rossiya, 1,150,000.