• freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    122·
    2 months ago

    The outset of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war in Ukraine exposed Russia’s ground forces as incompetently led and beholden to a tyrant in thrall to his own arrogance and neoimperial ambitions. The ensuing stalemate, now well into its third year, has been a strategic calamity for Moscow.

    Wat?

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know Hockstader—maybe he really drinks the Kool Aid—but either way, to stray from the party line is career limiting and may not get past WaPo’s editors.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      8·
      2 months ago

      I don’t think the west has a winning strategy at this point, but if western powers were realistic regarding the capabilities of their adversaries they wouldn’t find themselves in the mess they are today.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
      61·
      2 months ago

      If it led to stopping NATO expansion and coups and in consequence to no war, it would be a win for everyone except US ruling class, their political dogs and their neonazi pawns of Svoboda, Pravy Sektor and Azov.