• lorty@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    There’s no evidence that Russia is going to lose steam economically or on the battlefield any time soon. Continuing to fight a losing war will only make any final deal between the US, Russia and Ukraine worse for the latter. There’s a reason the 2022 treaty that was proposed looks unrealistic today, and whatever deal they make now will be much better than when they finally run out of men in the Ukrainian army.

    With the situation as it stands, negotiating is the best way out if you actually care about Ukraine. If you just want to weaken Russia then sure, fight to the last ukrainian.

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        7 days ago

        A lot of news about this conflict has been about what Ukraine would like to be true, rather than the facts.

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          7 days ago

          Well, I ran this through several media bias checkers - it came back as unbiased. Site leans a little left, but that’s about it.

          So tell me again, what are you trying to say? Because if your answer is more or less ‘it’s propaganda’ - I’m not sure I should entertain this topic any further.

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            7 days ago

            I’m not sure I understand. The article you have linked concludes with:

            Writing for The Bell, Russian economy experts Alexander Kolyandr and Alexandra Prokopenko also disputed what they described as “claims of an imminent catastrophe” for the Russian economy. “In our view, all things being equal, it’s unlikely that the economy will implode soon,” they write. They have a point.

            Which just agrees with what I’ve said about sanctions not working.