Ukraine’s drone campaign won’t turn the war around — but it will cause it to dangerously escalate
  • hello_hello [undecided, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    19 days ago

    What little remained of the “proxy war” fiction has now been dispensed with: in everything but formal declaration, this is a direct NATO-Russia war. And yet, most Europeans appear entirely oblivious to the fact that an undeclared war is being waged against a nuclear power in their name — and that with every new escalation their leaders are gambling that Moscow will simply go on absorbing the blows forever.

    atlantic-council Nothing ever happens gang ASSEMBLE.

    With Russian competitors being allowed again in the LA Olympics I’m getting confused on which way the war is going towards propaganda wise considering how much Ukraine has moved towards terror attacks within Moscow in the absence of being able to defend their current positions.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      7·
      19 days ago

      There’s also now the how row with Poland over UPA glorification which even the EU can’t ignore anymore. I kind of wonder if the west is getting ready to dump Ukraine if things start deteriorating fast on the front.

      • Lowleekun [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        16 days ago

        Honestly I feel like media and politicians have been intentionally chaotic and split with one side calling everyone not supportive a Putin loving warmonger and one side whining about the costs of supporting Ukraine. This made it possible to go either way at any point and that was the goal from day 1 if you ask me. Right now they still think they can keep a “low cost” (in comparison to sending their own ppl) forever war until their war economy is big enough.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
          2·
          16 days ago

          I think that’s probably the plan, although at this point it feels like these are more of schemes rather than actual plans. They just kind of fly by the seat of their pants here. What they don’t seem to understand though is that it is an economic war more than anything else. The attrition on the front is made possible by productive forces in the rear, and from what I see is that Russia is in a vastly better position in terms of productive economy than Europe is. This whole idea of Europe creating some sort of a war economy is just fantastical. Europe lacks cheap energy to do that, and there are already huge problems in the civilian economy right now which is what’s leading to public unrest across Europe. Diverting even more resources to producing weapons is only going to worsen the social crisis.