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This isn't a big deal.

You're a username on the internet. I guess you'll have to stay curious, no offense intended.

Yeah. What makes you think that either side is ready to consider humanitarian reasons? Popular support for the war is still high in both camps. There's no domestic pressure for peace based on wartime hardship. When the Ukrainians run short of men, they stitch the front back together with drones and artillery until they get more. When the Russians run short of men, they form prisoners into penal units, or offer their citizens the equivalent of 5-7 years wages to sign up for the SMO...

Post- Kursk withdrawal analysis. In a nutshell, the Kursk operation was a wash at best. The frontline is stabilizing but not stabilized fully. Russia is punching far below its weight in terms of mobilized forces vs battlefield gains. Ukraine is executing substantial reforms in training, mobilization and organization that are overdue. A bunch of bad Ukrainian commanders have been fired and replaced and it shows. There's really no military reason for either side the want a peace plan yet. Russia is still generating plenty of replacements, and some forward movement. Ukraine's figured out how to counter new Russian tactics, Russia's artillery advantage has been nullified, and Ukraine knows how to defend large areas with firepower and drones, which offsets its lower numbers.

Digested it. 1. Too stubborn in the playcalling on short yardage. 2. Oddly averse to running the ball, even when it was working. 3. The D got the stop it needed to get, when it needed to get it. For as good as Josh and Joe Brady were last season, that performance was disjointed and situationally tone deaf.

If only we had a tough, skillful negotiator for a president who could leverage economic threats to soften Putin's position.

Yawn. Yet some how this thread will bump up to top page longer than news about the failed ceasefire in Ukraine or the collapsing peace negotiations in the middle east. Total ragebait diversion.

I already did, there were local collections specifically for plate carriers, medical supplies and radios that I happily donated to.

They did agree not to bomb each other's power infrastructure for 30 days, so the negotiations weren't totally pointless.

So what concession did Trump get from Putin for giving up this leverage?

My play around portfolio was up 48% YTD before all this happened.

Why bother asking why it has to be one or the other, right?

Of course!

Yup! I also think it's true, so there's our impasse.

It's a judgement call. I trust a patriotic, pro-war Russian nationalist who led what was at the time, the most effective unit in the Russian military to Russia'a greatest victory yet in this war over pretty much any other source. His statement pretty much refutes all of those other arguments. The fact he was then murdered for speaking the truth, trying to upend part of the system, and being better at his job than Putins other cronies just seals the deal.