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Ukraine is punching so far above its weight. When the war is over Ukraines officers are going to be highly sought after by allied nations for training (they are the only combat hardened troops of a modern peer to peer combat). Spiderweb will be a movie one day.

Billions in damages, shattering troop moral, deep penetration into ‘safe’ Russian territory and deeply embaresssing for Putin. Also stategic bombers as in nuclear triad strategic bombers? I have always seen the bombers as likely the least useful part of the triad if not outright obsolete but I have no idea what the current military thoughts on this are. Still major loss.

At this point Putin seems to be running this war purely on emotion rather than reason. Somewhere between 1-7 billion in losses I read (is there any precedent for something like this?). Just more losses on top of a pile of losses and now a million casualties. I hope this brings him closer to the negotiating table but also wonder if it won’t do the opposite.

If this thread didn’t exist and I wasn’t a member of this forum I would also hear almost nothing about this war other than its ongoing. It shouldn’t take something on this scale to break through the noise.