I would ask them if this was the least bit true, but it's not.
This is case in point of why I just feel sorry for you Ukie boosters, you literally have to delude yourselves into these obvious mental gymnastics with logical contradictions that don't make the least bit of sense when subjected to the barest amount of critical thinking. You concede the Russians are advancing and achieving territorial gains without a mobilization while the Ukrainians have went all out on mobilization; how exactly is that a sign of Ukrainian strength when even them going all out isn't enough to halt the Russians?
We could then dive into how the West has already exhausted its ability to materially supply them, how said supplies have entirely failed to halt the Russian advance, and then we can dive into what exactly does it mean for Russian chances when they are making gains without mobilization; if the Ukrainians do start to magically win, what happens when the Russians take their gloves off?
As is often the case, the Ukrainian partisans like you are either Anti Russian to the point of being bigots or so woefully misinformed that you really shouldn't be commenting until you actually read up on the situation. Case in point that immediately stands out to me is claiming they lost most of their wars; that's not true at all and you can figure that out with a simple google search. Case in point is how Russia has won six of the nine insurgencies its faced from the 20th Century on; how many has the United States won in that same timeframe?
Specific to the claims here, the universal evidence is there's nothing to support what you're saying here. Russian polling firms, including opposition ones, show majority support for the war; Western politicians agree. That the Russians haven't resorted to general mobilization isn't a sign of weakness anymore than the United States having failed to do so in any of its conflicts since WWII. We didn't do a general mobilization in Korea or the Gulf War, did we? Was that because internal support was lacking? Or, just like Moscow, there was economic considerations at play for Washington?
Go ask the Ukies getting their asses kicked at Lyman, Severodonetsk and Mariupol how well this line of thinking is going.
Meanwhile in reality:
Ukrainian forces have succeeded in thwarting Russian efforts to seize Kyiv and Kharkiv and have scored battlefield victories in the east. But the experience of Lapko and his group of volunteers offers a rare and more realistic portrait of the conflict and Ukraine’s struggle to halt the Russian advance in parts of Donbas. Ukraine, like Russia, has provided scant information about deaths, injuries or losses of military equipment. But after three months of war, this company of 120 men is down to 54 because of deaths, injuries and desertions.
The volunteers were civilians before Russia invaded on Feb. 24, and they never expected to be dispatched to one of the most dangerous front lines in eastern Ukraine. They quickly found themselves in the crosshairs of war, feeling abandoned by their military superiors and struggling to survive.
“Our command takes no responsibility,” Lapko said. “They only take credit for our achievements. They give us no support.”
When they could take it no longer, Lapko and his top lieutenant, Vitaliy Khrus, retreated with members of their company this week to a hotel away from the front. There, both men spoke to The Washington Post on the record, knowing they could face a court-martial and time in military prison.
The volunteers’ battalion commander, Ihor Kisileichuk, did not respond to calls or written questions from The Post in time for publication, but he sent a terse message late Thursday saying: “Without this commander, the unit protects our land,” in an apparent reference to Lapko. A Ukrainian military spokesman declined immediate comment, saying it would take “days” to provide a response.
“War breaks people down,” said Serhiy Haidai, head of the regional war administration in Luhansk province, acknowledging many volunteers were not properly trained because Ukrainian authorities did not expect Russia to invade. But he maintained that all soldiers are taken care of: “They have enough medical supplies and food. The only thing is there are people that aren’t ready to fight.”
But Lapko and Khrus’s concerns were echoed recently by a platoon of the 115th Brigade 3rd Battalion, based nearby in the besieged city of Severodonetsk. In a video uploaded to Telegram on May 24, and confirmed as authentic by an aide to Haidai, volunteers said they will no longer fight because they lacked proper weapons, rear support and military leadership.
“We are being sent to certain death,” said a volunteer, reading from a prepared script, adding that a similar video was filmed by members of the 115th Brigade 1st Battalion. “We are not alone like this, we are many.”
Poorly trained conscripts and volunteers, not being fed and giving up the fight with associated mass desertions taking place. Stop drinking the Kool Aid and you'll begin to realize you're living in a fairy tale.
Except, again, this isn't backed up by any evidence beyond Twitter boosters. I absolutely love how willing people like you are content to be with the same people you bemoan in every other circumstance.
Is that why BBC investigations of Russian KIA found they had losses well below the Ukrainian official losses? Again, you're so drunk on the Kool Aid you have to contort yourself into the logical disconnect of saying the Russians can't survive attritional warfare despite the fact you've conceded they're taking territory without needing to do a general mobilization. How are they taking the territory in the first place? If we accept your fairy tale, what happens when Russia mobilizes its larger industrial and manpower base?
This war ends with total defeat of Ukraine, no matter what.
Probably a good thing, given the recent U.S. track record of losing to Pashtun tribesmen while the Russians, who have a larger industrial base than the United States, are advancing steadily and collapsing the Ukrainian Army.
Again, it's either bigotry or ignorance. How much of Russian GDP is derived from oil sales? 11%, and this includes all customers, including China who signed $100 Billion+ agreement back in January. How much of Russian GDP is from industry? 35%. Russian can easily survive the loss of oil exports to Europe, but can Europe survive the loss of 40% of its energy sources?
They, themselves, admit no.
Kinda hollows out your claim about the Western Lend Lease all on its own, no?
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