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Who's winning the war in Ukraine? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The media won't give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that's true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large plethora of military resources?

PS: I realize there are many casualties on both sides and I am not trying to downplay the suffering, but I am curious as to how it is going for Ukraine. Right now I am hearing ever louder calls of Russia winning, those have existed forever, but they seem to have grown louder now, so I was wondering what you thought about it. Also, I am somewhat concerned of allowing a dictatorship to just erase at it's convenience a free and democratic country.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

From where?

Indian media mainly, I haven't explored out of the Indian media bubble though.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I know they've historically been close to Russia, I didn't realise they still had so much support.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

India is absolutely leaning (hard) towards Russia. They probably never bought gas/oil and fertiliser so cheap.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 1 points 1 year ago

You need to be aware that India and Indian sources are a lot more charitable to the Russian narrative, simply for economic reasons. India is getting a SWEET deal on Russian oil and arms sales these days, much to the frustration and ire of a lot of the rest of the world. India is one of the major reasons why the economic sanctions against Russia aren’t working quite as well as they could be.