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The media won't give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that's true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large plethora of military resources?

PS: I realize there are many casualties on both sides and I am not trying to downplay the suffering, but I am curious as to how it is going for Ukraine. Right now I am hearing ever louder calls of Russia winning, those have existed forever, but they seem to have grown louder now, so I was wondering what you thought about it. Also, I am somewhat concerned of allowing a dictatorship to just erase at it's convenience a free and democratic country.

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[โ€“] dudinax@programming.dev -4 points 11 months ago (8 children)

The West would like Ukraine to win, but it's more important to the West that the war drag on and be a drain on Russia's resources.

[โ€“] Kissaki@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago (7 children)

No it's not. The west has nothing to gain from it dragging on. Nobody wants it to drag on.

[โ€“] ours@lemmy.world -4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It sucks for Ukraine but a Russia tied down in Ukraine has less funds to meddle with the rest of the World.

It drains their military and their economy while Putin must be extra careful against coups. There has been one very famous coup attempt directly related to the war (Wagner Group) and who knows how many other smaller attempts have been stopped preemptively?

[โ€“] v_pp@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago

This is some absolutely depraved shit. You're sitting here justifying levels of death and destruction and human misery that are beyond your comprehension just because of some made up conspiracy theories about Russia "meddling" with other countries. In what possible universe does that make you anything other than pure fucking evil?

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