Of course they haven’t.
Only 2 lost in 2 years of drone warfare combat is impressive, unfortunately only sending 14 is barely a drop in the ocean as you say. Russia lose that many tanks in a single week.
Interestingly outside blagging during that interview he has since "retruthed" an article about US intelligence saying the attack wasnt true and that its clear Putin is the problem for peace. The problem is theres no point even attempting to know if that means anything as he flip flops all the time, such as a month ago saying Ukraine can retake all their territory only to come up with a 100% Russia peace deal sometime later, its meaningless. You can only wait and see his actions. I dont think he has been directly questioned on it since though.
But early for April fools!!
Yeah probably to big and self sufficient for there to be a complete collapse, it will restrict their ability to fetch stuff in though, as long as us Europe and the US continue with the sanctions and supply of armaments etc the chances of Russian victory look extremely slim.
The good part is from what I read is that in both Challengers that were lost the crews survived, such a pity we closed the factory that made them and with it the expertise.
I think it’s important not to get seduced by wishful thinking, but I do believe that the old adage that Russia can sustain limitless casualties until inevitable victory is anachronistic and wrong. The demographics are not the same as they were in the 1940s, and nor is the nature of warfare. Stalingrad could have been a very different outcome if drones had been in the picture, for example.
Russia still has a awful lot of young men of military age, how prepared to go to the front line and die it's difficult to know. Usually in war it's not always a willingness to die than wins out (see Japan) but wealth, resources and manufacturing capacity invariably does. Germany had very little chance in WW2 because of these factors. Western Europe has done pretty well in weening itself off Russian energy alas China's bought up the slack on the cheap and both Europe and the USA are flooded with Chinese goods so we're still funding the war to a degree.
There is zero chance of a "victory", they can't hold on to small amounts of square km as it is, that is clear. "Victory" would mean taking all the territory to the Balarus/Polish/Slovakian/Hungarian/Romanian border, that's not happening when they can't even take the Donbas, they tried it with the full might of their army, and it failed pretty miserably.
China (and to a degree) are taking the piss out of putin, he just hasn't realised yet. There are plenty of stories about that they're not buying russian oil like they were, and he doesn't have many other allies to sell too. Iran is probably his closest "ally" and there seems to be considerable unrest there again.
They're Russia's top buyer unfortunately admittedly taking the piss by getting it cheap.
I'm not saying they aren't, but I've certainly seen articles saying they've reduced what they are buying recently.
The last shutdown was scroats nicking copper wire.
www.bbc.co.uk
I so hope that vox pop is vaguely representative. And as I’ve said previously even if it were to happen (and it won’t) a Russian ‘victory’ at this stage would be largely pyrrhic and an ongoing burden.A thought provoking conclusion to Rosenberg's article
Steve Rosenberg: What are Russians hoping for in 2026?
The BBC's Russia editor speaks to people in the country as the war in Ukraine nears a fourth year.
Noteworthy (and presumably intentional) that Trump is spelt with a lowercase ’t’ throughout that article.Even the CIA has confirmed there was no drone assault on the residence...
CIA finds Ukraine did not try to kill Putin in alleged drone strike. Anyone surprised?
As most of us have suspected, there was no attack on Putin’s residence, as alleged by the Krelim and as parroted by trump. It was just an attempt to derail the Ukraine-Russia peace talks and to extract more concessions from Zelenskyy. The world knows...www.dailykos.com
The morning after the claimed attack,locals told Russian media,there was no noise of drones,no anti aircraft fire,it was silent the whole night.Even the CIA has confirmed there was no drone assault on the residence...
CIA finds Ukraine did not try to kill Putin in alleged drone strike. Anyone surprised?
As most of us have suspected, there was no attack on Putin’s residence, as alleged by the Krelim and as parroted by trump. It was just an attempt to derail the Ukraine-Russia peace talks and to extract more concessions from Zelenskyy. The world knows...www.dailykos.com
Fake news
For me it shows more about Americans in general