Comments by "James H Gornall" (@jamesgornall5731) on "Putin's Humiliating Retreat from Kherson: The Latest Battlefield Update" video.
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@casbot71 i think youre missing the strain Ukraine is under as an entity, not a strong economy before the war it is now on effective life support, maybe a third of the population has left maybe never to return and the bulk of the men still there are conscripted under arms. The West, inasmuch as when either the USA or NATO arent directly engaged look primarily for cost effective ways of dealing with such issues. If it starts to become exponentially more expensive in terms of equipment to move Russia further back then Ukraine will be encouraged to settle things diplomatically. There will not be indefinite supply of equipment particularly when attrition rates pick up. Meanwhile, what happens to the country after the war ends? A mythical 21 century marshall plan? Unlikely, especially when people start to remember that Ukraine has had its own clique of kleptocrats pillaging the nations wealth in return for superyachts of their own, an issue which kept it far outside nato or EU membership in the first place. In 12 months, if Ukrainian armed forces retake 50% of what has been lost, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of lives, what becomes of the rest of the country, infrastructure bombed out, half the women and children migrated abroad, when does it become politically unpopular to carry on any support whatsoever?
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