The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large plethora of military resources?
PS: I realize there are many casualties on both sides and I am not trying to downplay the suffering, but I am curious as to how it is going for Ukraine. Right now I am hearing ever louder calls of Russia winning, those have existed forever, but they seem to have grown louder now, so I was wondering what you thought about it. Also, I am somewhat concerned of allowing a dictatorship to just erase at it’s convenience a free and democratic country.
Yep. The worst thing is that they forced the whole western world to think in terms of war, after most of us lived through several decades of relative peace, which allowed spending a lot less money on war and more money on infrastructure, education et al.
Even if they lose this one particular war, they have brought us down much closer to their level. Some officials in Poland are now publically saying that eastern europe has 3 years to prepare for a Russian attack against NATO.
On the other side, Finland joined NATO and Sweden will probably follow soon. That cannot be something Russia wanted. And also, perhaps Ukraine will surprise us again. They have done so many many times in the last 2 years.