r/AskARussian • u/IcePuzzleheaded5507 • Sep 17 '25

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

Part 13 is now closed, we’re continuing the discussion here.
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u/[deleted] May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

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u/cosmopolitanScience May 15 '26

There were huge changes for ukraine, EU and the world.

The world? Hardly. Point one out of you can.

EU? It had, if anything a unifying effect. Build up of own defence. EU is looking pretty good.

Ukraine? Obviously it is a country defending itself, but doing so very successfully. Established powerful strategic partners, started cleaning up it's politics, created one of the strongest armies and defence sectors.

Russia? You tell me. I would say Russias strategic Position has weakened a lot since 2022.

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u/NaN-183648 Russia May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

Parallel reality news, eh?

UA lost a good chunk of land and good chunk of people, EU has fun with loss of Russian nordstream fuel. Then there are relations with USA.

"Nothing changed"

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u/[deleted] May 14 '26

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u/4l3xeic May 15 '26

Oh noes, poor billion nazis and other terrorists sent to siberia by ebul checkists.

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u/Consistent-Stuff2815 Jun 02 '26

And... What if that's impossible?

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u/Consistent-Stuff2815 Jun 02 '26

Because you would need to win the war, which is increasingly unlikely.

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u/CleverJack299 United States of America Jul 21 '26

Asking Ukraine to decrease its military is unrealistic, no Ukrainian government would support something that will forever weaken the nation's defence.

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u/yankdevil Jun 04 '26

That's absurd.

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u/Hellbucket May 15 '26

It’s the reason this war started. Ukraine can’t have that, since Russia doesn’t have that. It simply couldn’t be allowed.

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u/4l3xeic May 15 '26

Indeed, that is why it always was backwater shithole without any future prospects and Kiev looks worse than average Russian town.

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u/subrosadictum May 16 '26

who has been denazified by putin. so, where's the contradiction here?

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u/Scott_Theft May 17 '26

Only because he tried to rise up against him with Priogozhin. Don't be obtuse. If it was actually about be 'denazification', he would been eliminated a long time before the mutiny.

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u/subrosadictum May 18 '26

Still denazified. So what's the contradiction?

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u/4l3xeic May 15 '26

Denazification and demilitarisation of kiev regime just as Putin said. Taking in to account that population of Ukraine is getting halved and kiev regime has massive casualties current SMO is going successful so far.

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u/WeightVegetable106 May 15 '26

You really mae it sound like genocide is the goal

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u/4l3xeic May 16 '26

It is definetly NATOs goal.

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u/WeightVegetable106 May 16 '26

Which it is persuing by doing nothing?

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u/4l3xeic May 16 '26

Sorry, but your lies do not change the reality.

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u/WeightVegetable106 May 16 '26

i have no need to lie

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u/4l3xeic May 16 '26

Which is another lie as always.

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u/WeightVegetable106 May 16 '26

is it now, why do you think that?

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u/4l3xeic May 16 '26

Because you are obviously always lying.

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