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Originally Posted by curves2000
I think there is more of a realization that the west really just messed this up more and more. A lot of the bad news is coming out now and it's getting harder and harder to keep the morale up and see a realistic opportunity for Ukraine to move Russian troops away.
All of a sudden Europe's pledge of 1 million shells by March 2024 is looking like a pathetic joke. They quietly acknowledged they were going to miss the target by 50% but only 30% of that lower amount has been delivered.
Bottom line is that the US and the west is going to have to arm Ukraine to the tits, and with the level of weapons that will make a serious difference.
We are getting to the point where Russia will need to suffer a significant military defeat or it will be Europe that will suffer the defeat. Putin should have been stopped at the start but he will try poking the bear with NATO just for laughs.
There are the talkers, which appears to be the west and Europe and there is the doers like Putin and the guy who filled his request for a million shells quicker than I typed this message, "Rocket Man" from North Korea .
Crazy times indeed
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We know North Korea is sending ammunition by the train loads to the Russians, and likely China is sending stuff as well. Iran is sending advanced drones.
Ammunition burns incredibly fast in a real war situation, and when your short of it people die. Ukraine is going to start running low on men at some point, the correlation of forces strongly favors the Russians and with Ukraine short on ammo that kill ration goes out the window.
We're also heading towards summer, which is when we will likely see a Russian offensive, and if that happens its going to be really difficult for Ukraine to get any kind of initiative back.