..I think one sure piece of evidence that the Ukes are losing this war is that you never hear of or see any footage of the fighting over there on (especially...) Fox News, etc. Used to be every night some talking head from somwhere in Ukraine was reporting on the fighting; now, nothing....I am not a Putin stooge, but I believe a negotiated ceace-fire would be in the best interests of both Russia and Ukraine...
As a frequent visitor of HotAir, they used to have this blaring headlines every day about how amazing Ukraine is doing, Russia losing, Russia suffers this, Ukraine does that, etc., etc., etc.
Yet in the last week or so, they’ve been real quiet, so I surmise the current news ain’t to their liking.
>> I think one sure piece of evidence that the Ukes are losing this war is that you never hear of or see any footage of the fighting over there on (especially...) <<
I think that’s evidence that Russia is no longer foolishly throwing around huge, easy-to-fight divisions of tanks. If there was a place I was tempted to believe no news was bad news, it would be outside Kherson.
>> I believe a negotiated ceace-fire would be in the best interests of both Russia and Ukraine. <<
Aye, there’s the trick, though, when a super-power attacks a much smaller nation, isn’t it? In a very real way, Max Detweiler from the Sound of Music was quite correct when he said that surrendering to the Germans was in the best interest of Austria. In fact, there’s a point when it’s in a rape victim’s or a tortured prisoner’s best interest to stop resisting. But if you tell a victim it’s in their best interest to stop fighting, it’s pretty damned hard to say you’re a friend and not an accomplice, isn’t it?
There will likely come a point when the rest of the world can do no more to drive Russia out of Ukraine, but if the prize of Russia isn’t so very small, and the cost so very large, Russia will attack again and again. Be careful you don’t end up sounding like Max Detweiler or a rapist’s accomplice or Neville Chamberlain or Jimmy Carter.