Russia Is Only Winning Inside Trump’s Head:
“As Russians will tell you, the reality on the ground looks very, very different.” (FP)
Posted by RichKatz
Russia Is Only Winning Inside Trump’s Head:
“As Russians will tell you, the reality on the ground looks very, very different.” (FP)
Posted by RichKatz
6 comments
Was this published before the setback in Kursk? I don’t doubt Putin’s overestimating himself and Trump is going along with it for whatever reasons, but is there a serious argument form military analysts that Russia would not ultimately prevail assuming everything else remains equal?
Submission statement: The “only winning inside Trumps head” actually refers to what appears to be a Russian political strategy geared toward dealing with the US. It is in fact a direct quote from Yale University’s Timothy Snyder. Professor Snyder adds that Putin:
>”only wins the war on the ground by setting American policy, through Trump.”
But the article continues, asserting that based on what Trump thinks and Trump-Vance Ukraine meeting, one would think the Russian strategy was actually a success. The reality for Russia on the ground, however, doesn’t quite match up to Trumps imagination.
According to the article, Trump has claimed on social media, “Russia is absolutely pounding Ukraine on the battlefield ” but that this is “exactly what Putin needs Trump to think.”
Entertaining article.
Russia isn’t totally “winning” since it hasn’t kicked out Kyiv’s government or made NATO back off, but it’s still hanging onto a lot of Ukrainian land. And with how things are looking, Ukraine getting these territories back, either militarily or diplomatically, seems like a long shot. So even if Russia hasn’t won completely, it’s still got the upper hand by keeping control of those areas.
Russia only wins this war if they can convince trump they’ve won
Let’s do a quick month by month comparison of the map of Ukraine for the last 18 months and revisit this mental gymnastics.
They’re not winning easily, but nobody else is gaining any ground.
This sounds like copium honestly. Winning war doesn’t always mean that you take over the entire country. As long as Russia occupies Ukrainian territory, they have the upper hand. Even during negotiations it will be on Russian terms because they control more land.
Putin and Russia would have been in this same exact position if Kamala had won.
Ukraine was losing Kursk in December too. Don’t make it sound like they lost because of Trump. But yes Trump accelerated Ukraine fallback.
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