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Originally Posted by jfman
Russia having successfully shifted it’s industries from relying on the West to working with China, India and the global south have managed to keep their war economy on track and stronger now in 2024 than it was in 2022. A picture unlikely to change for the rest of the decade unless the west go down the World War 3 route.
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This is the crux of it.
After Ukraine’s early successes and Russia’s early embarrassing losses, and the exposure of Russia’s aging military equipment, poorly maintained, poorly equipped etc etc.
The narrative was, keep Ukraine supplied and Russia will burn themselves out.
But Russia haven’t burnt themselves out, they are re-equipping, and have not been pushed back……..at all. Ukraine have failed to make any real inroads in the past 12 months, they’ve been given an astronomical amount of money and have depleted the West’s ordnance stocks.
I’m not saying Russia will win, but Ukraine won’t win either.
To paraphrase Blackadder, Zelenskyy has managed to move his drinks cabinet two inches further East in the last year.
This conflict needs to be concluded around the table, as it is obvious it will not be concluded on the battlefield, and Trump is 100% right.