[NotGMan]

>> in spite of the humiliating military defeats

What "humiliating military defeats"? They are winning on the battlefield.

The author seems to be oblivious to the reality and drinks a bit too much western mainstream media kool-aid.

There are many channels on Youtube that report a much more realistic picture with full tracking of the moving battle lines without much bias for any side.

Eg: https://www.youtube.com/@historylegends/videos

[anovikov]

Sure now they are slowly but surely taking/retaking territory. But until late 2023, they were on the defensive. It took almost 2 years for Putin to turn things around after a botched initial invasion. And at the rate of the worst month since (November 2024) it will take them like, 100+ years to capture the entirety of Ukraine.

And Russia has been stable because vast majority of people indeed support what Putin does. Putin in fact, isn't a problem at all, problem is Russians themselves.

[ndsipa_pomu]

Putin originally believed that they could take Kyiv in two days