Russia-Ukraine Megathread 31(upload.wikimedia.org)

If there was a white peace tomorrow it would take years if not a whole decade to rebuild their military. It will take shorter if the west finances it, but Ukraine is already a very poor country and the military budget was already huge, the west is eventually going to make them take IMF loans to pay back all that “lethal aid”. Long term the country has no future it is nothing more than NATO’s attack dog.

The actual important stuff like rebuilding all the bombed cities and rebuilding the economy is going to take even longer if it ever recovers at all.

There is no conceivable way to call this a victory for Ukraine unless we treat it as a game of risk where the objective is to have your color on the map.

Were we wrong to assume Russia would win this?

The war is far from over(1-2 months minimum), they retreated the troops from Kiev in order to launch a new offensive in the east. At the very least they’ll liberate the entire Donbass region and call that a victory.

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