Russian forces occupied 4,336 square kilometers (1,674 square miles) of Ukrainian territory in 2025, accounting for less than 1% of the country, the Ukrainian open-source mapping project DeepState reported in an year-end assessment published on Jan. 1.
No they can’t, they’re suffering shutdowns, slowdowns and guerilla action in their own country. You can only throw so many young men into the meat grinder before you end up having open rebellion which in this case likely means assassination attempts which are fairly likely to have already started but been surprised in the news.
Wishful thinking.
We are nowhere near that point.
You’re kidding right? Do you not remember the tank battalion revolt? That’s not a good sign for Putin.
There are plenty of bad signs. But we are not there yet. Most people in Russia are not bothered by the war yet. The economy is bad, but not crashing. There is no panic. The recruiting is slowing down but still working.
We are not there yet. Might be years away when the average Russian publicly sais anything against the dictator.
If recruiting were working they wouldn’t be borrowing troops from NK or dumping convicted criminals into their ranks.
They already are what are you talking about?
What are you talking about, NK troops are a part of it, criminals were there since the start.
People have been saying Russia is just about the collapse since the start of the war. Yet here we are.
Most military and economics experts say the we aren’t there yet. Economy will continue to go worse, but it won’t crash for a while. Military is going worse, but current tactics don’t include a lot of material, just infiltrators, so the costs aren’t the big anyway.
We aren’t there yet. You don’t have to trust me, just stop trusting hype masters on YouTube that live from people on hopium.
Yeah that doesn’t imply recruiting numbers are being met or implies they aren’t.
I didn’t say Russia will collapse, it likely won’t. Putin on the other hand is pretty likely to get killed or hit every wheel as the bus runs him over.
They also said it would be less than a year, how’d that work out?
I don’t watch YouTube but sure project away.
Oh I watch a lot of stuff. I see a lot of hopium out there. A lot of people want to see this ending quickly with a complete victory.
Maybe Putin under the bus soon. Just a few months from now maybe sooner. They have been saying this for years. Since the beginning some people said that the oligarchs will get rid of him. And many other theories.
But people that know Russia better say otherwise. Russia and Putin are not in a situation right now when this kind of thing is likely to happen.
Sure it can, it can always happen. But I wouldn’t bet on it right now. It’s fine if you do, I’m just saying it might be hopium. But it’s fine if you are into that kind of thing.
No one said quickly nor complete, it’s been like 3 years already and there’s no such thing as a complete victory.
“They”, I am not they, I am me.
Surely you most know better than I or my compatriots.
I generally discount people who say shit like hopium or woke, it’s fine if you’re into that kind of thing though.