37 sats \ 10 replies \ @Satosora 26 Sep \ parent \ on: No, Russia is Not Losing the War in Ukraine: A Reply to Paul Schwennesen news
Russia only wants certain things of Ukraine, right?
My understanding is that they want Ukraine to relinquish control over the ethnically Russian provinces of Ukraine. Those areas have historically been part of Russia and are still culturally Russian, but more importantly they form a land connection to Crimea, which is enormously strategically important to Russia.
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I don't know. If it did, I feel like that would have been part of the narrative.
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There certainly might be, but I think the available explanations are sufficient for what's happened.
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I never know what to believe with that sort of thing. When tensions were high with North Korea we started hearing about Kim Il Sung having health problems and being near death.
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