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No shit, they can’t even win a war against a former client state.
I really don’t want to defend Russia here, buuut realistically Ukraine would have been defeated a while ago without the constant stream of weapons and money from the west. Yes, there would possibly be some partisan / guerilla warfare still going on, but the official military would have been defeated.
And here we are… in a shitty rerun of the 80s, but without the good music.