Russia appears ready to feed troops and equipment into the meat grinder of Ukraine as long as they make glacial progress towards controlling it's

seatrade in this war of attrition. I think at some point it will even become too dangerous to send advanced weaponry to Ukraine because the physical manpower on the ground won't be available to operate and safeguard it. This is an excruciating conflict by rising degrees of strangulation we are witnessing

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Elessar · 26-30, M

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we (west) can afford sending weaponry and "volunteers" for far longer than Russia can continue replacing its own losses

plungesponge · 41-45, M

@Elessar weaponry yes, volunteers it doesn't appear so. That would bring NATO into the picture officially. Its the reason they are sending Ukrainians to Germany to train up in using advanced equipment, but that's a slow process, slower than Russia just conscripting its population into the fight which is what they are doing

Elessar · 26-30, M

@plungesponge So long as it's not an official army you can't say a country is involved. Russia itself has the Wagner group for this kind of plausible deniability reasons.

plungesponge · 41-45, M

@Elessar Do European countries or the US have an equivalent of the Wagner group?

Elessar · 26-30, M

@plungesponge The both of them have the resources, if deemed necessary, to arm (a much bigger) one.