Not sure what "proper" support from the west would be. They've done everything short of sending in regular troops. As far as Putin, I think he had to know that he was never going to de-nazify Ukraine, because it's full of them and the invasion just made more, and he probably never truly believed he would demilitarize it, either. I think Russia has accomplished what it set out to do, establish a buffer between itself and NATO on its souther border.
They have secured a land bridge to Crimea, unblocked the water to Crimea, destroyed Azov Battalion & retaken a bunch of territory in the Donbas. They have achieved or are achieving all their goals.
The only people who think Russia is losing are people who believe Russia’s goal is to annex all of Ukraine
I think their ideal would be to annex all of "Novorossiya". So they're at like 50% right now. Though I can see them scaling back that goal to just the four oblasts they have.
If literally killing every single Nazi doesn't denazify a country, what would even work? A cultural shift perpetually reinforced from the outside? I think that's just religion...
Basically the only way to de-nazify is to do what the Soviets did in East Germany. Massive culling of the state apparatuses, large scale re-education, sending all the open Nazis to prison or execution.
They would have occupy the nation for decades and annex it, so I don’t think they are going to be able to, no.
However I won’t cry over nationalist battalions getting liquidated left and right. Russia will likely break the political and organized power of the NATO-backed Nazi organizations, but there will be lingering Nazi ideology in Ukraine (especially Western Ukraine) for a very long time
Not sure what "proper" support from the west would be. They've done everything short of sending in regular troops. As far as Putin, I think he had to know that he was never going to de-nazify Ukraine, because it's full of them and the invasion just made more, and he probably never truly believed he would demilitarize it, either. I think Russia has accomplished what it set out to do, establish a buffer between itself and NATO on its souther border.
They have secured a land bridge to Crimea, unblocked the water to Crimea, destroyed Azov Battalion & retaken a bunch of territory in the Donbas. They have achieved or are achieving all their goals.
The only people who think Russia is losing are people who believe Russia’s goal is to annex all of Ukraine
I think their ideal would be to annex all of "Novorossiya". So they're at like 50% right now. Though I can see them scaling back that goal to just the four oblasts they have.
If literally killing every single Nazi doesn't denazify a country, what would even work? A cultural shift perpetually reinforced from the outside? I think that's just religion...
Basically the only way to de-nazify is to do what the Soviets did in East Germany. Massive culling of the state apparatuses, large scale re-education, sending all the open Nazis to prison or execution.
Think that the current "representative" "democracy" form of Russia is still capable of that?
They would have occupy the nation for decades and annex it, so I don’t think they are going to be able to, no.
However I won’t cry over nationalist battalions getting liquidated left and right. Russia will likely break the political and organized power of the NATO-backed Nazi organizations, but there will be lingering Nazi ideology in Ukraine (especially Western Ukraine) for a very long time
4 out of 5 stars isn't that bad.