[Skybird]

You guys always give long quotes of what Western politicians have said. Talk is cheap. Most of it is Bla and more Bla and then plenty of Blablabla. Most of the time it means nothing to me.

And even where there would be the will - question remains how there could be a way. Production limitations are real. And Western weapons are often overdesigned super-dooper platforms that were not made for long attrition warfare and cannot be easily replaced or repaired, but are overengineered primadonnas. The Russians have it easier, they never meant their tanks to last long time, and different to all Western states, Russia has switched to full war production and has allies also delivering it stuff. The Western states not trading wiht Russia - are a global minority. We even buy their oil, still so, and other ressoruces. Just via third party traders like India. We buy teir oil, for a lot more money.



Energy production, industry production and critical infrastruture in Ukraine now is in a worse condition than it was last February. Ukraine's overall situation has worstened. It gains small tactical victories, but in the bigger picture of the full war they remain to be mostly meaningless. Russia creeps forward. It creeps, but it goes forward.



I see currently no chance for the liberation of the Eastern oblasts, or Russia fleeing from Crimea. That sounds like science fiction currently.