• Billiam@lemmy.world
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    The Kremlin warned that American support for Ukraine could turn into a decade-long folly, urging the U.S. to not oppose its invasion of the country as Congress appears set to pass a $60 billion aid package.

    Buried lede: Russia thinks its “three-day special military operation to de-nazify remove US biolabs de-NATO Ukraine resurrect the Soviet Union” could take a decade. 😂

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      Also, they think they might need a decade to defeat a power that has a fifth of its military size, and which has, so far, roundly managed to make a laughingstock out of much of the Russian military.

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        Let’s assume Ukraine and all the funding it receives does delay it a decade and Russia eventually wins.

        Isn’t that still a resounding success delaying Russia by 10 years and crippling them from the extended war?

        It might suck for Ukraine, but from a foreign policy perspective that’s a success

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          💯💯💯 these fuckers are enlisting prisoners and using 50 year old tanks. Their readiness is supremely fucked RIGHT NOW let alone a year or more from now.

          Any victory, if ever, will be phyrric at best.

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          Uhh no it isn’t? What the fuck? The very fact of a war is a foreign policy disaster if you care about the well being of Europe at all. God I hate America sometimes