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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
I'd caution a little on the exhausted Russian military issue. While some estimates put their losses at 240,000+, Ukraine has lost most of their best soldiers too and western estimates peg their losses at about 20,000. Most of the info we get on casualties is Ukrainian army info, which is very much also propaganda. Ukraine is hurting a fair bit and probably doesn't have anywhere near the capability of drafting more men like Putin does. Having said that. Momentum is everything and if they can get off on the right foot and Putin can't manage to get more lethal aid from Iran or China, I'd say Ukraine has an OK shot at getting some territory back
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I thought that because Ukraine declared martial law, they basically have 1 million men they can call on if needed.
Every Ukrainian callup will be 10x as motivated as a Russian grunt being sent to some town he doesn't care about, in another country, to die.
Plus the Ukrainian military is being trained and supported by NATO. NATO war tactics will always beat the Soviet doctrine of throwing meat at a problem.