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Ukraine is losing up to 20 sq km of territory per day, Russians have seized 3,600 sq km in past year – Militarnyi (www.pravda.com.ua)
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[–] rottingleaf 2 points 2 days ago

One theory is that they don’t need to.

They are giving citizenship to labor migrants for service there, and to various illegals, so I'd say they need it.

The other theory is that they can’t.

They can. That "partial mobilization" is still in effect. These people are simply afraid of calling anything by its name.

They want to pretend it's still 00s and we are an imperfect democracy with a counter-terrorist operation slowly going on in Northern Caucasus, we have a fairly elected president with his high rating, stability and booming economy and all that. They really liked that while it lasted.

But, ahem, they don't want to let go of power. Still, they are trying to call everything the words which would aesthetically fit into that atmosphere of 00s, and it doesn't make any sense for anyone outside their crowd.

And in the end, let’s be honest, the US lost both of Bush’s wars.

It lost the peace after. It won both wars.

I mean, one can redefine a lot of terms, but then USSR lost WWII, since it fscked up the restoration of its parts of Europe.