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Originally Posted by CivicBlues
lol Putin would never go along with Ukraine joining NATO, that's literally the reason why he started this shit.
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Further to that point, if I were Putin, I would actually have good reason to believe that Russia is going to win the long game. So what if it is a meat grinder now? It isn't like Putin cares about how many Russian soldiers die in the war?
At the end of the day, I think Russia has ~10x the population of Ukraine. So if it is a matter of throwing enough dead bodies to win the war, Russia is the more likely side to win through that. Russia has also shifted its economy to support the war, and they are able to buy weapons from the likes of Iran, N.Korea, and China, so they are not going to run out of weapons any time soon. They are also circumventing a good number of sanctions -- buying stuff through middle man countries, selling oil to Bulgaria, India, and at least one other European country whose name has slipped my mind. So to Putin, they are doing just fine.