Laura Scott7 said:So, Melitopol has fallen too—a city of 150,000 people—just goes to show how much regular folks actually want to die for the sake of American interests.
Back at the start of our own war, the Mexicans seized far more territory from us—an entire third of our country was under occupation—and yet, nobody blinked. These are just the opening salvos of a conflict that could, unfortunately, drag on for a long time. Of course, Ukrainians will lose ground in some places and gain it in others, much like we did during our struggle. You don't win a war in a single battle. The reality is that the Russians are on foreign soil now, and they’ve made a massive miscalculation if they think they can simply swallow a nation with this kind of population.
The truth? Ukrainians don't possess the same sense of moral imperative that we had, and certainly, not every Ukrainian is as motivated as we were back in the 1990s—though there are enough who are.
That little man has convinced himself he's invincible, likely riding high on his "successes" in Syria and similar episodes. But Ukraine isn't Afghanistan or Georgia. The Russians have completely lost their minds; whatever they're doing is going to cost them dearly, no matter how you look at it. Putin has unleashed an evil that will haunt him as much as it haunts the Ukrainians. And I doubt Russian mothers will be particularly pleased when this war begins to stretch out indefinitely.
