Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "How is the war going? — July 2024" video.

That’s how it seems, but it’s hard to say. The question is who will break first.
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@slippingsnake They are supposedly arriving this summer. Granted we don’t know the specific day, but sometime between now and the middle of September, they will be in Ukraine. Russia will have to commit its air force—its main conventional strategic reserve vis-a-vis the West (not to mention the long term threats from the East). I don’t think we’ve seen the Russian Air Force throw all its weight on Ukraine, mostly because it has to maintain a credible deterrence against the West. Ukraine has been able to attrit those forces the Russians have committed so far. If the Russian air force doesn’t commit, and the F-16s prove to be decisive, we should expect Russia to escalate in other ways, possibly using tactical nukes or chemical weapons on the battlefield.
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That is an interesting point. I think that the Russian Air Force has not fully committed to the Special Military Operation because it’s responsible for the defense of all of Russia’s airspace. They’ve been throwing in dribs and drabs of aircraft directly into Ukraine. Will this change when the F-16s arrive? Will they commit more interceptors? Your point about air defense is well taken.
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@thomasdalton1508 They won’t be able to rebuild Ukraine. They won’t even be able to police it. To do so they would have to use increasingly brutal methods. Meaning that if Russia wins, Ukraine will suffer terribly for a period and then throw off the yoke of Russian imperialism. Worse for Russia and worse for everyone.
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@jetserb You don’t get it. At some point the Russian meat sacrifices will decide they have a say in whether or not they go to the slaughter. At that point, the more soldiers Russia has, the worse it will be for the Kremlin and the Generals.
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It’s not an endless stalemate. Your sources of information are questionable and your knowledge is superficial at best. The money being spent severely decreases an adversary’s capabilities, while we are sending equipment that has been retired or slated to be retired over the next 5-10 years. Some of your tax dollars are being “spent” on the market value of this equipment, meaning the money gets folded back into our military budget and there is also a savings on decommissioning costs. The paper tiger wont even be a paper kitten if this war continues. Now, what is “effective aid”? Why not just go whole hog and send American soldiers into Ukraine? What do you think the Russian response will be to that?
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