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Originally Posted by Bagor
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Different people had different expectations, and there's also a gap between hopes and realistic expectations. I think a lot US and British media has often been somewhat excessively hopeful (when they haven't been unnecessarily doom and gloom). I feel like Finnish media for example has been more even-keeled / realistic.
Personally I was mentally prepared for things to go much worse than they have. It even seems that casualty/loss ratios have still mostly favored Ukraine despite them being on the offensive, which if true is a remarkable military achievement in itself. That's a huge reason why I think there IS a real chance that Ukraine pulls off "the impossible" here despite what the odds are on paper.
(But again, the impossible is more likely to mean they can drain Russian resources more than Russia can handle economically, or more than the Russian people will tolerate. A huge military breakthrough seems unlikely.)