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Originally Posted by Itse
Russia doesn't really need to do offense. If they can hold on to what they have, they will still have achieved one of their main goals, which was a land bridge to Crimea and nearly complete annexation of Donetsk and Luhansk.
I definitely agree that Ukraine has a decent chance to win this, but it's far too soon to count Russia out.
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I'd argue this war was less about land, and more about the threat of a former vassal becoming a prosperous EU aligned country, completely undermining Putin's dictatorship.