Man, China must be watching this shitshow, looking at Outer Manchuria and wondering what exactly Russia could do about it at this point if they decided to reverse the Treaty of Aigun...
I'd slightly categorize that under "lack of infrastructure". Taiga covers 12% of Earth's land area and is difficult to travel in. 25% of Earth's land area is mountainous, 33% desert, 7% rainforest...
Yes. Putin has been acting like global warming will unlock more Russian land for production. Turns out the permafrost areas are such because they were mostly giant bogs before freezing.
https://sh.itjust.works/u/LearnedDonkey@kbin.earth permanently banned, not for being a tankie, but for weird ass, bot-like responses. If you see a suspected bot, don't feed it, [like I did], just report it. TIA morons
They were posting similar bait in other communities and have been site-banned on SJW.
Then again, I'm sure in their head that's still their idea of winning somehow.
I don't think Russia is winning. I think Russia, for all intents and purposes, already won..at a cost of course.
But I tend to filter my news by reality and sources by factuality. Most people tend to filter by wishes. So it's normal that some would think otherwise. The other side filtering by wishes may also be thinking that the win came at a much smaller cost than reality.
But don't forget that Russia thought they'd seize Ukraine quickly. They haven't. Even if they "win", it will be a shit show and they won't be able to keep it
I also have a Russian coworker who joined the Company after the war and he was embarrassed about Russia. I seriously doubt most of their soldiers are motivated to fight
political propaganda is extremely effective and it’s impossible to make out the from the noise.
Near as I can tell Ukraine was losing fairly badly and the invasion was a last ditch effort that nobody wanted, although they are still backed by NATO and they won’t lose until they let them but Russia has an almost endless supply of Troops and equipment so they will lose eventually unless the war gets too embarrassing or it risks going Nuclear.