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The whole point of a debate is to read what the other person is saying, and respond to that. You're not doing that. You're just full-quoting me and repeating yourself, without even acknowledging my arguments about your (IMO) poor reasoning. As as an example of your bad conclusions, just refer to anything regarding these maps and the near-zero progress the Russians are making. You're definitely not reading these right. Here's an example of "recent gains" in the last 24 hours. They barely ever show up on these maps, because they're hard to confirm in that short a time span. As for Chasiv Yar, the place where Russia is concentrating hardest, here is the ACTUAL progress Russia is making, according to YOUR SOURCE. In 65 days, the Russians have moved forward 2.7km. That's 41m a day, and this is where Russia is advancing the fastest, and concentrating the hardest. Sad Vlad is throwing away 1000+ of his worthless donkey soldiers daily, so the Russian army can advance the distance I walk to go have a beer across the street on my neighbor's porch. At this pace, it will be two years before Russia reaches Kramatorsk, the closest city of any importance, and they'll lose over 600,000 more soldiers (4x the population of Kramatorsk itself). "Advancing is advancing" is utter bullshit, and I think you know that. I've said it multiple times before, and you've ignored it over and over, but Russia runs out of manpower and equipment long before Ukraine runs out of land at this rate - and this is with US aid delays.
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They're meters per day. I offered to review those maps with you and show you, because you keep referring to them but can't seem to read them properly.... Unsurprisingly, you ignored my offer, just like you avoided any of the other points I made. 🤷♂️
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Sure. I'm just telling you that you're not going to get any intelligent responses from him. He's literally a paid Russian troll, and he's been caught before copypasting the same garbage on other Western country's forums. "Something something, Anglo-Khazarian Nazi something something..." You can tell when he posts here that he's just copypasting trollfarm content, just because of the format of the text he uses. Athos buddy, you need to work harder. Mother Russia is disappointed in your feeble efforts.
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Your sources and the information they provide are not the problem. It's the conclusions that you draw from them. That's a pretty goofy thing to say when you're not even acknowledging the points I'm making. No it really didn't. The map you provided was an interactive present-day outline of the battlefront. That's it. It doesn't illustrate "recent gains". They do archive previous days' maps, however, so we can do that comparison for ourselves. I'll tell you what. Why don't you pick a point on that map, anywhere, and I'll go dig up the old ones from June so we can compare them side to side. How does that sound? Let's see how great you're doing backing up your posts with your sources....
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Once again you've uselessly dropped a wall of text repeating the same things you've already said a half dozen times, while somehow managing to avoid acknowledging even a single argument I made. Right...🙄 When Russia captures the outhouse on the corner of Yuri's farm at the cost of several hundred soldiers and numerous armored vehicles, it's totally worth it because "advancing is advancing". How are you even taking yourself seriously saying this sort of nonsense? What a freaking joke.
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and what about the will of the people in Russia? Nevermind, I forgot. Putin has 89% approval rating, everyone loves the special military operation, Russia's soldiers are super motivated and are happy their lives are wasted frivolously. The country is not driving itself even deeper into an accelerating demographic decline either. Everything is GREAT. 🙄
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You've already decided on a narrative, and you're going to ignore all evidence and reasoning that contradicts it. See: They're not. You've looked at the maps, and to see these "steady advances" (measured in meters) you have to zoom the map in to the point where you see individual houses. The best part is it's all being gained for the low low cost of 1200 dead and wounded a day. Russia runs out of manpower long before the Ukrainians do, and decades before the Ukrainians run out of land, at that rate. "Advancing is advancing" is a stupid thing say in that context, especially as former army, when you actually know better. If the Russian arty is doing its job, it wouldn't be suffering 10x the casualties despite firing 10x more shells than the Ukrainians, and they'd actually be advancing (more than a few feet per day). "but but but 80% of the Ukrainian casualties are caused by Russian artillery" is not a counterpoint. All that means is that Russians suck worse at everything else. Yes, that's the one thing that we agree on. Economically, NATO and the West can trickle tiny, barely noticeable fractions of their budgets towards Ukraine, and evidently that's enough to foil Russians, who are pouring ~30% of their GDP into it. Step up support just a little bit, and the Russians can't keep up. They'll go bankrupt, and you and I will never notice the money sent to Ukraine. THOSE are the economies of scale we're looking at here. Russia is a dirt poor shithole full of servile mud people. The only thing Russia has going for it is that it has more lives to throw away, and Sad Vlad's desperate propaganda efforts to make the situation seem hopeless to simple minds in the West (with you obliging him).
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You responded to my posts, not my points. Responding to my points requires you to actually acknowledge and address the specific things I'm saying, rather than full-quoting me and just repeating what you've already said. Your beliefs have no bearing on the debate, but do seem to taint your reasoning. The sources you've provided aren't necessarily false. It's the conclusions that you draw from them that's the problem.
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You know what the definition of unfalsifiable means, but the logical implications are beyond you. That tracks. You're one of the only people on this forum that demands cites for negative claims. 🤣 First, plants consume CO2. I'll assume you know that. Second, CO2 in the atmosphere is measured in PPM. You'll have to show us your "sources".
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FFS, man. I've responded to this (lousy) point at least a half dozen times, and just you plough past and ignore that on your way to saying it again. Do you figure you're just going to bludgeon us into submission via repetition? If you're not going to do me the courtesy of responding to what I write, there's no reason to read the rest of your post.
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It doesn't matter that 80% of the casualties Russia is causing is with their artillery. This has been address multiple times, and you just sort of blow past it and keep repeating yourself. Let's try an analogy: If your football team averages 3 points a game, and 80% of that is field goals (most of which are taken from 50+ yards and miss), are you concluding that your special teams are effective/unstoppable? No. You conclude that you have a dogshit offense, and the only points you're putting on the board are field goals. I showed you two timestamped maps from Dec 2023, and June 2024. You just ignored it went on repeating yourself. 10-20km of advances, over several months, (now more or less stalled) and costing the Russia and their meat assaults ~1200 daily dead and wounded - that's what the BBC and ABC are reporting. At that rate, Russia will complete their conquest of the Donbas in...what? 2040? It'll only cost them 7,000,000 dead.
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but they don't, and the fact that you're still arguing they do means you haven't, in fact, conceded anything. They try to make up for it, but their numerical advantages aren't translating to battlefield effect. Ukraine is doing far more damage with far less ammunition, and that's a fact, rather than a "math loop", lol. Are they supposed to be taking stupid, useless risks, yielding negligible near-zero results? What doctrine is that from? A nothingburger of a statement. You've been shown the maps multiple times. You can see Russia's "advances" over the last 2 years amount to a wet dogfart. "But but ABC is saying...." doesn't somehow change that.
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Some things are inherently wrong, like murder, rape and stealing. Some things are a matter of perspective, like premarital sex, abortion, divorce, gay marriage etc. When someone dresses up as a dog and let's a kid pet them, I imagine they're having their heads pat or something like that - silly, harmless fun. You, on the other hand, make it sound like they're angling for a reach-around. Perspective.
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It's math. If they're firing 1/5th or fewer rounds (as your numbers would suggest) and if Russians are suffering 2:1 casualties (as most sources report) then that's 1/10th as effective. SO WHAT? This has nothing to do with the question we're debating, and it's the same on both sides. All it tells us is that the Russian airforce, navy and infantry are even shittier than their artillery. If it takes 10 Russian shells to match the effectiveness of a single Ukrainian one, the numerical advantage you keep talking about is what's actually moot. Irrelevant fact. If their "advancing" amounts to pushing from one blade of grass to the next, at massive cost in human life and materials, what does that count for?
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Don't be. He's been on this forum for something like 20 years and I have zero doubt he was in the army. We talked about Afghanistan back in Harper's day. He's really not one of the bad ones here, even if I think his biases blind him.
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The math shows it's 10th as effective. Reconsider what you're trying to say here: Russia is firing 5x as many artillery shells as Ukraine, but the fact that it's 1/10th as effective is somehow a moot point? Wtf...? That's utter nonsense, and there's no point in responding to the rest of your post, or even continuing the debate if this is the logic you're running with.
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No, because 80% of Russia's casualties are caused by Ukrainian artillery, and Ukraine is firing less than 20% the amount of shells, but causing double the casualties. What does that math tell you? I've already brought this up, but you just sort of talk past me and repeat the same points in different ways... Not for the Russians. They lost them in droves last summer as they're apparently easy to locate, they have minimal capability to replace the systems because of sanctions, and they continue to lose them regularly. Not disagreeing, but how do you figure that situation is going to improve? Does arguing unwittingly on Putin's behalf about how hopeless the Ukrainian situation is, despite all evidence to the contrary, somehow help? I really don't get what you're trying to do here, and how you're failing to see that the most important battle for Putin is winning the hearts and minds of people like you by repeating the same points over and over until it's taken for granted. This is all bad logic - all of it. Ukraine is "begging" for equipment because they're not getting what they're asking for, and what they need. They're lack of gains on the ground are matched by Russia's, who despite the overwhelming and hopeless advantage they apparently have, still aren't moving.