Putin bets on an ancient weapon in Ukraine: time

Perhaps you haven't noticed that the west is imploding by itself. I don't think Putin has that much to do with it. USA, dumping California water in to the sea, paying farmers not to grow crops, selling off their oil reserves, shutting down oil producing wells, freeing the country border to all who want to come in illegally, placing sanctions on Russia without realising they need their goods as well.

Look at the eyes of a psychopath in photos of Putin.

Ukraine is turning into an Afghanistan for Putin. For America, it's a budget-line item. For Ukrainian patriots, it's existential. We'll see who outlasts whom.

Putin will be dead and buried before Ukraine surrenders.

I don't think there will be any winners. More time also means more pain for the Russian economy.

fallaffel...

 More time also means more pain for the Russian economy.

Obviously you haven't be tracking the Russian economy since the invasion..(sorry, special military operation)

This isn't about time, it isn't really that much about Ukraine. Its the first shot in the bipolar new world, USA and her vassal states and China/ Russia/Iran and their vassal states.

The west doesn't care about Ukraine. It wants control of Ukraine.

Sadly for the west, Ukraine has much more importance to Russia....

Time is working against Putin. With the new Ukraine offensive in the south planning on the full liberation of Kherson by September, the west planning on training Ukraine pilots and providing western fighters, Putin is about to know what it is like to be on the back foot.

The faster the west want or need this conflict to be over, the more pressure on them to provide Ukraine with the modern systems that will bring them victory on their soil.

Nothing right now is in Putin's favor. Russia is about in the best position that they will get in this invasion. Ukraine troops morale is going up as more reports of long range precision hits on Russian ammo dumps and command centers come in. Russian troops are becoming more disillusioned with their generals and with Putin, and being hit from a range beyond their ability to hit back.

Time is turning and going to be Ukraine's ally now and Russia needs to sue for peace or lose all the territory it has stolen. Ukraine will be liberated from the now thrice hated Russians.

Go Ukraine!

Good luck with that, SpongeBob

The west doesn't care about Ukraine. It wants control of Ukraine.

Putin doesn't care about Ukraine. Putin wants control of Ukraine.

An easy fix, really easy.

Mr Putin, the 21st century Josep Stalin, is the Butcher of Ukraine!

ClippetyClop...

Putin wants control of Ukraine.

Almost correct.... I'll fix it for you..

Putin wants control of some parts of Ukraine.

Well, Putin's bulldog Lavrov finally admitted they want to remove the Ukrainian government (despite having denied such notions before).

Russia can't be trusted. They already broke the grain agreement by shelling Odessa.

They want to remove Ukraine from the maps, remove Ukrainian history, culture, language and all what remains to remember Putin of his biggest mistake in history.

I think it is about time to set things right - UN, NATO, whoever. No tyrant should be allowed to do as he pleases.

I think it is about time to set things right - UN, NATO, whoever. No tyrant should be allowed to do as he pleases.

You mean except for the US don't you?

They want it all back and maybe some more, geographically from Portugal to Alaska. And they also announced it the one way or other and on several occasions. And yes, time will tell if they succeed or not, if they make it through history, or the West or even someone else, if already on the radar like China or someone else arising, who knows. Putin and also we all will long have gone at the end of that flowing ever changing developments. Someone else in the future will evaluate who in 2022 was true with announcing and predictions and who was not.

What's ridiculous is the comments by people that think Putin is losing his special operation.

I wish that he was

Obviously he's not !

It is not going particularly well for him, with very little recent progress. If you believe the reports from the Institute for the Study of War:

"Russian troops are being forced to engage in various HIMARS mitigation tactics on the battlefield, including camouflage measures and constantly changing the location of equipment groupings.[10] These mitigation tactics are impeding Russian forces from conducting the massive artillery barrages that they have widely employed over the course of the war, as evidenced by NASA Fire Information for Resource Management (FIRMS) data that shows consistently fewer observed heat anomalies over the frontline in Donbas since the introduction of HIMARS to Ukraine." Source: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-24

What's ridiculous is the comments by people that think Putin is losing his special operation.

I wish that he was

Obviously he's not !