• Adlach@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    The thing that drives me nuts about the “if” quote is that the Spartans lost. Hard. Cool quote, but loses some of its punch when you realize they were talking a big game they couldn’t follow up.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Not to mention the force sent to Thermopylae were all killed. NATO really is going to fight Russia to the death of every last Ukrainian.

      • Adlach@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        He’s also wrong about which conflict this quote shows up in—it wasn’t sent to the Persians but to the Macedonians under Philip II.

        Not relevant really, just a fun fact.

  • Star Wars Enjoyer @lemmygrad.ml
    18·
    3 months ago

    the Russian Armed Forces have been making constant gains in the Donesk front, and their dominance on all fronts but the northern Luhansk Oblast operation has inspired Ukraine to launch an invasion into the Kursk region so they can have anything at all to leverage in negotiations.

    But sure, it’s an “if” situation… and Russia is totally going to lose.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      launch an invasion into the Kursk region

      How’s that going? Last info i had was from three days ago and they bragged about gains on map with a scale with single houses visible as 5mm squares

      • Star Wars Enjoyer @lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        2 months ago

        It’s still too early to say whether or not it’s going well, but the Ukrainians have been making decent gains.

        I’m assuming the Russian response will come in the coming days or weeks, and the Ukrainian forces will get pushed out. Their stated goal of the operation has already been nullified (and frankly didn’t hold water anyways) so I don’t know if the Ukrainians will invest many of their resources to keeping that front open, but if they do it could have dire consequences to their overall resolve.

        Ukraine is already at a serious disadvantage in its manpower and resources, so this operation (at least to me) looks to be an act of desperation. You wouldn’t try something so bold and borderline suicidal if you saw a future otherwise. I won’t say this means the war is ending soon, but I will say that the end of the war may have finally crested the horizon.

        **update: It seems the Russian response has begun, the RAF are retaking ground in the Kursk region & stopping Ukrainian advances. While ramping up their missile attacks across Ukraine. Prepare yourselves for copious amounts of Ukraine cope from people who don’t understand how war works.