Message #42910

[mccoy]

Eric, some of the things you wrote are true, like the fact that this war of attrition is slowly destroying Ukraine. On the other side, the counterpart is suffering pretty badly, the economy is tumbling downhill and the image it gave to the world is that of an inefficient army, of a loser of a ruler, of a nation once believed a superpower, which now is struggling to conquer a few stripes of land outside its former borders.

Above all, as Steve reiterates, Russia is the invader country. They badly lost the blitzkrieg they wanted to pursue. The plan to overturn the Zelenski government with a coup supported by the Russian army has been nipped in the bud. They cannot bark to the world that they were in danger of being invaded by the NATO countries, because nobody is going to believe them.

The worst outcome is that two previously neutral countries, Sweden and Finland, have joined NATO, this constituting another colossal mistake  in the global arena.

They have practically lost since the inception of the war.