>humiliates a modern army for 85 days with no logostics or backup
>survives
NATO training + experience in the field > anything Russia has to offer. Also

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/03/ukrainian-airstrikes-zaporizhzhia-offensive/

And

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-weapons-account-more-40-030849706.html

It seems Ukraine has stepped up its game considerably since Trump got elected. I don't buy that Stalinist doctrine of "quantity being a quality of its own". If you look back at European history, you'd be reminded time and time again that "cannon fodder" simply means that's more people to kill and that's the only real difference, like a lion fighting a bunch of hyenas. Look back to Nikola Zrinski or King Leonidas for example. Alsp, Putin nor his follpwers have ever read the Art of War by Sun Tzu either. Laying brutal siege in warfare has never ended well historically.

>>63941665 (OP)
>It seems Ukraine has stepped up its game considerably since Trump got elected.
It's also a decline in russian competence. They were already trending towards WW2 soviet tier casualties per meter of ground gained. But then to try and project strength toward Trump they started doing a series of hastily planned and executed operations that all amounted to "throw 100,000+ men at [location]" and proceeded to get nowhere in any of them. In any case, while it's true that Ukraine has been steadily improving its capabilities in the past 6 months, I'd say the deterioration of russian capabilities is more pertinent.

Leonidas died and ultimately lost though (Even if the war was won). It's not zero sum nor is there a gradient.

With the second link the days of arms exporting Russia (at any meaningful volume) is over. Ukraine is going to join that echelon of secondary arms exporters like South Korea, Turkey and the like if the first echelon is the big dick exporters like USA/Russia in the past/China increasingly.

I wonder if the Ukraine strategy is on some level try and wait out Putin's life. Because when he dies you'll see a real scramble for power. It could end relatively benignly but in that third world and archaic way I'd imagine the Russian generals in charge of their actions in Ukraine will go
>Fuck this shit I want the throne
Since the alternative is to sit on your ass and hold the front and either someone takes over and they replace you or they kill you.

>>63941700
Im a doomass there is a gradient, it's just not zero sum. And at a certain point diminishing returns in a modern warfare.

>>63941665 (OP)
>>humiliates a modern army for 85 days with no logostics or backup
>>survives
are you talking about houthis?

>>63941700
/k/ is like a higher /pol/ but higher IQ.

>>63941748
no, thirdie, we're not talking about your favourite shithole, and you already knew that.

>>63941700
>It could end relatively benignly
Lots of windows in Russia, I heard.

>>63941665 (OP)
>I don't buy that Stalinist doctrine of "quantity being a quality of its own"
after decline of the soviet empire, putin doesn't have quantity (nor does he have quality)

>>63941827
Hardly a feat when the average IQ on /pol/ is like 80