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by quickthrowman 475 days ago
> Of course they can defeat Russia, if they’re tenacious enough. Just look at Afghanistan (against both Russia and USA)

Ukraine is steppe and swamp, very flat. Afghanistan .. is not.

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And we saw what happened when Russia approached Kyiv.

It goes both ways, there's a reason why Russia has more than 900.000 casualties in 3 years of a "3 day special military operation".