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Bjerknes

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    Aren't they overwhelmed fighting just the ukranians? Why the hell would they provoke NATO?
    Because they need another crisis to tell their citizens see, it was NATO all along. We're dealing with insane people shelling nuclear power plants so anything is on the table.
     

    BayernFan

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    Feb 17, 2016
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    Ukraine is like Vietnam back then; they're at home - they dont need to win, they just need not to lose.
    Agreed. The longer this fight goes on the worse it is for the Russians. The Ukrainians needs to hold out and make this a long fight, if they manage that the Russians will lose steam eventually and probably realise they can't afford a war like that.

    The Russians never been afraid to lose huge amounts of casualties in men and equipment. But that was when they fought for their own survival like in WW2, anything else than them winning would've meant the end. Now they're the aggressor and invader, so morale will probably drop big time if it goes on like now and the total opposite for the Ukranians.

    In short they just need to turn it into a new Afghanistan for the Russians.
     

    Goodfella

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    Nov 11, 2012
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    Agreed. The longer this fight goes on the worse it is for the Russians. The Ukrainians needs to hold out and make this a long fight, if they manage that the Russians will lose steam eventually and probably realise they can't afford a war like that.

    The Russians never been afraid to lose huge amounts of casualties in men and equipment. But that was when they fought for their own survival like in WW2, anything else than them winning would've meant the end. Now they're the aggressor and invader, so morale will probably drop big time if it goes on like now and the total opposite for the Ukranians.

    In short they just need to turn it into a new Afghanistan for the Russians.
    Would it?
     

    BayernFan

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    Feb 17, 2016
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    Would've been the end for the Russians as a nation. Hitler wanted to kill like 90% of the population, enslave the rest and use the Western half of Russia for lebensraum.

    So the Russians had no other choice, than to fight to the end. Hence they also lost 26 mio people in the war, by far the largest of any nation.

    Crazy thing is Hitler could actually have succeeded in this if he had treated the Ukrainians better at the start of Operation Barbarossa, most of them hated Stalin and his communist regime and were seeing the Germans as liberators to begin with. But as he (Hitler) saw them as subhumans he of course didn't even consider this option. So he turned a potential ally into enemies and partisans he had to fight while waging war in the East.

    Thats what you get when you fight a war of extermination.
     

    Tomice

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    Mar 25, 2009
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    Agreed. The longer this fight goes on the worse it is for the Russians. The Ukrainians needs to hold out and make this a long fight, if they manage that the Russians will lose steam eventually and probably realise they can't afford a war like that.

    The Russians never been afraid to lose huge amounts of casualties in men and equipment. But that was when they fought for their own survival like in WW2, anything else than them winning would've meant the end. Now they're the aggressor and invader, so morale will probably drop big time if it goes on like now and the total opposite for the Ukranians.

    In short they just need to turn it into a new Afghanistan for the Russians.
    Ukraine is like Vietnam back then; they're at home - they dont need to win, they just need not to lose.
    I understand the sentiment. But the afghan and Vietnamese had nothing to lose and nowhere to go. Truth of the matter is that Ukrainians have prospects, countries that will accept them with open arms, possibility to make a good living in the EU.
    I love that they are fighting back but I don't believe the resistance there can last as long as it did in the place you guys mentioned. They are humans and if the Russians will escalate even further, hope can be lost very quickly in this situations.
     

    Ronn

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    May 3, 2012
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    Ukraine is like Vietnam back then; they're at home - they dont need to win, they just need not to lose.
    Very different situations. In Vietnam US couldn’t come up with a metric for measuring success because Vietnamese land was worthless. There was nothing in the villages worth holding on to, so sometimes they had to take a village or a hill multiple times before abandoning it.
    Ukraine is a somewhat developed country and there are clear strategic points.
     

    Goodfella

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    Nov 11, 2012
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    Would've been the end for the Russians as a nation. Hitler wanted to kill like 90% of the population, enslave the rest and use the Western half of Russia for lebensraum.

    So the Russians had no other choice, than to fight to the end. Hence they also lost 26 mio people in the war, by far the largest of any nation.

    Crazy thing is Hitler could actually have succeeded in this if he had treated the Ukrainians better at the start of Operation Barbarossa, most of them hated Stalin and his communist regime and were seeing the Germans as liberators to begin with. But as he (Hitler) saw them as subhumans he of course didn't even consider this option. So he turned a potential ally into enemies and partisans he had to fight while waging war in the East.

    Thats what you get when you fight a war of extermination.
    Sounds like one hell of a fairytale. Total extermination, subhumans, Dr.Evil.

    Soviets had tons of collaborators with the Third Reich and the recent estimates of Soviet WW2 casualties are upwards to 50million.
     

    Dostoevsky

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    What's the best case scenario for Ukraine if

    1) Russia has a bigger/stronger army
    2) NATO won't get involved

    That automatically means Ukraine has to accept what Russia is asking them do. Postponing the war hoping for what exactly? Russia changing their mind and backing off? That surely ain't gonna happen.
     

    Juventino[RUS]

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    Mar 9, 2006
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    What's the best case scenario for Ukraine if

    1) Russia has a bigger/stronger army
    2) NATO won't get involved

    That automatically means Ukraine has to accept what Russia is asking them do. Postponing the war hoping for what exactly? Russia changing their mind and backing off? That surely ain't gonna happen.
    There is no end game for Russia, Russia already lost
     

    BayernFan

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    Feb 17, 2016
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    Sounds like one hell of a fairytale. Total extermination, subhumans, Dr.Evil.

    Soviets had tons of collaborators with the Third Reich and the recent estimates of Soviet WW2 casualties are upwards to 50million.
    You say I'm talking about a fairytale regarding total extermination, and yet your numbers are double that of 26 which has been the official numbers of Russian casualties since forever, can't you see how retarded that is? You're literally contradicting yourself.

    The German war aim in the East is well known, to say like you do is simply because of ignorance.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarossa_decree
     
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    DAiDEViL

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    Feb 21, 2015
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    What's the best case scenario for Ukraine if

    1) Russia has a bigger/stronger army
    2) NATO won't get involved

    That automatically means Ukraine has to accept what Russia is asking them do. Postponing the war hoping for what exactly? Russia changing their mind and backing off? That surely ain't gonna happen.
    They gotta make it as costly as it gets for the russians.

    Can't just roll over to them, knowing what is going to happen to their country.
     

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