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Senator JD Vance Believes Ukraine Should Cede Land As a Consequence of Being Invaded (redstate.com)

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This has been a hot topic for conservatives. I fully support Ukraine, but at some point, they have to say they can't push Russia out. Ukraine does not have the manpower or firepower to dislodge Russia. They've tried and failed. Western support is starting to go down because they have not made progress.

I don't know the solution, but right now, it's just a war of attrition, and Ukraine loses in that scenario. I suspect this will be a big topic of discussion during the presidential debates.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can I see your source for that? It is poor form to ask for common knowledge. I did a quick search and this one doesn't show the one to one ratio. It does show Ukraine is losing a larger portion of its troops.

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-russia-death-toll-questions-bakhmut-counteroffensive-1800947

Russia's death toll has surpassed 200,000, Kyiv's military said on Wednesday, but the updated figure also raises questions about the losses sustained by Ukraine as its forces prepare a counteroffensive. A leaked document from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency which circulated online in April 2023 suggested that Ukraine had sustained between 124,000 and 131,000 total casualties.

Categorically untrue. It’s certainly stalled, in large part because Russia was allowed the time to dig in deeply, as Ukraine was drip-fed the arms and ammo they desperately needed. You can’t use the fact that Ukraine has not been properly supplied as reasoning to stop supplying them completely.

It is categorically true. The counter-offensive has failed. There is no way to spin it otherwise. They did not achieve their military objective before winter. That is a failure. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us/politics/us-ukraine-war-strategy.html

If you genuinely support Ukraine, then you’d support properly arming them so they can defend their country from a nation that’s hostile to both them AND you. Ukraine is not defending America. Russia won't attack America. The last time they did, Trump killed hundreds of Wagner soldiers.

[–] Transcendant 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Russia attacks your country in many ways, not just with troops. Do you know what asymmetric warfare means?

Your 'source' for 1:1 figure is a leaked, unverified document?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

The one to one was a comment from general Milley.

And we do the same to Russia.