I'm sure there are plenty of Russians that still remember the stories told by their grandparents of how the battles against the Germans were fought.
Worked for the Russians against the Germans, worked for the Chinese against the Americans.
Rot in prison or be one of the honoured dead.
The gamble is that the CIA runs out of Ukrainians to feed into their war machine before the Russians run out of prisoners and dissidents...
Until German tanks start rolling into Russia (the flag they are flying won't matter) and then the balloon finally goes up and we get the global nuclear war we have been being promised for the past 50 years.
Will you please share how the next few months, end of the year, next year will unfold?
How this will end?
Nobody knows how this is going to end. All of the “experts” were wrong out of the gate, thinking Ukraine would fall rapidly.
Russia will do Russia’s time-honored strategy of throwing bodies at the problem, which is why there’s a 700,000 man mobilization after the failures of the past attempts at pushing to Kiev for the past year.
Russian strategy is to soak up as many enemy munitions with the bodies of their soldiers until they reach a point where the enemy isn’t able to re-arm fast enough, and they can make a push with whatever soldiers happen to be in reserve behind the fodder at the time.
Europe’s strategy is to prevent this from spilling anymore into Europe as long as possible, so Ukraine will be given whatever they need to basically keep a stalemate and not allow Ukraine to realize a decisive victory. A decisive victory could trigger escalation.
Europe didn’t want any of this, nor did the US. Ukraine wanted to trade their goods and services in Euros, and slowly move away from worthless Rubles and Russia’s influence. They have had to sit by and watch Poland’s economy grow dramatically, while being pillaged and robbed by Russia’s puppets and Boyars.
The problem is that Russia can’t afford to have Ukraine establish financial, industrial, and military independence because the Ukrainian border pretty close to Moscow for many theater-specific weapons. Another major threat Russia was looking at was the fact Ukraine discovered huge oil fields off the coast of Odessa, and re-discovered the fields near Kharkiv.
Now imagine a future where Ukraine is pumping oil and NG to Germany. Putin could never let that happen, which is why he invaded in 2014 after his puppet Yanukovych was ousted.