Post #41419 by onepoorguy on the US Policy board

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So you give them the guns and the money. The West can do that for much longer than the Russians can - our economies are (collectively) doing okay, but theirs is on the brink of collapsing.

Ukraine can't throw the Russians out. But small nations never win these kinds of wars by physically throwing out the other side. Vietnam never had the power to throw the U.S. out, and Afghanistan never had the power to throw the U.S. (or the Soviets) out either. But those nations won their wars anyway, because they only needed to outlast the invading power's desire to keep fighting. The country being invaded usually has the edge there, because the fight is existential for the home country but (usually) by choice for the invading country.

I've said that numerous times, but it doesn't seem to be sinking in. Or he just doesn't grok. Either way, I'm done. He doesn't understand the situation on the ground, and probably can't be expected to by relying on a few news outlets who give the war a few minutes of coverage.

You and I are correct, and history proves it.

Also, it's Ukraine's choice to keep fighting. We aren't forcing them to do anything, which he keeps implying that we are.

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