Just feels like the West wants Ukraine to win but not too quickly out of fear of what a quick collapse would do to Russia so instead hope for a slow bleed out of Russia and the delusional hope that Putin will eventually see sense, that and some countries are unwilling to actually take hits to their military, despite the fact that nobody threatens them directly and the only one who could (Russia) is currently fighting Ukraine. We spend a gross amount of money on military and it feels like it's all just for show if the time we should actually be using it most, we aren't.
People will say we need to save everything for Taiwan but you know what would convince China to attack Taiwan more than anything? If Russia wins, China will have the perfect template of how to beat the West and it's very simple, just wait us out, we'll eventually grow frustrated and bored if a war last longer than a couple of years. I don't even think most of Europe would aid America with Taiwan but that's another topic. We should demolish Russia and send a message to China that the same will happen to them if they try anything with Taiwan.
Instead North Korea is beating us and Ukraine is asking for fairly simple things but not even the whole collective of America and Europe can supply it to Ukraine in adequate numbers. Ukraine can't just keep accepting hordes of Russians being thrown at them because they aren't receiving enough equipment, enough ammunition, enough artillery rounds, enough drones, enough counter-technology, eventually the swarm will overwhelm and Putin doesn't care how many lives it costs.
Tom Cooper's latest report is despite the horrific losses on the Russians in Avdiivka. They're still taking land because they're just throwing absolutely everything at it and don't care about the losses, Ukraine is running low on artillery to stop the advances and Russia is replacing its artillery with swarms of drones and Ukraine doesn't have enough counter-drone technology. Losing Avdiivka would actually be a bad thing, unlike the Pyrrhic victory of Bakhmut, Ukraine can make it hurt as much as possible for the Russians but losing it would still be bad.
So many things we could have done better, so many things we can still do better, instead we still today debate about red lines and are unwilling to put ourselves in a fraction of an uncomfortable position as Ukraine is putting themselves in for us. We then moan about being tired because the war could last years despite us not doing everything in our power to speed the conclusion of this war up, the reason it is lasting years is because of our reluctance to give Ukraine what it needs.
Putin won't ever see sense. He will happily send more than half of Russia to their deaths and nobody will do a damn thing about it because we range from the sensible Russians having left the country, the ones remaining seeing honour in fighting for Mother Russia, others in it just for the money because of how poor some Russian regions are and the rest too terrified of Putin to do anything. Ukraine may win an attrition war still but I don't want them to win an attrition war, I want as few Ukrainian deaths as possible, I'm not sure some in the West care about that though.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 02 November 2023
