March 2024… Useless data.

If lemmy becomes just a bit more popular, the same thing will happen

Sounds like excuses to me.

You can’t say there isn’t anything to it. But for sure I agree it isn’t the whole story.

I don’t know, it sounds pretty impressive to me. I don’t even know when my wife is angry.

Which one is that. I guess I’ve been left out of the loop.

I’m so excited! Will it not suck completely? Maybe!

We have had many predictions like that before. I believed in some and I take myself to be quite conservative in these estimations. What I saw is that none of them actually happen as an event, but very gradually. The best example is artillery shells. Media has predicted that Russia will run out of shells many times, but it doesn’t happen of course, because thats not how the world works. They just reduce consumption. This reduction was not big enough for any media to even report.

What im trying to say is that there is very likely not going to be an event when Russia cracks. As sanctions are applied, workarounds are found. They have enough people by sheer numbers to at least defend the front for many years to come.

Not significantly. For now Russia made sufficient changes to endure and project an appearance of stability.

That’s not the point. The point is when will this effect the war? Significantly. Enough to matter to Ukraine.

Russian economy is going towards ruin…

… but it’s not nearly fast enough to have a substantial impact on the war in Ukraine. Russia is good to fight for another 2 or 3 years, maybe an additional year if they really push it. Can Ukraine do that? Not unless NATO seriously ramps up high tech weapon deliveries.

Even without US. UK has nukes, France has nukes. You don’t need a lot to destroy Russia. Basically just two.

Nato would completely overwhelm Russia, but not before nukes would fly from various places and hit major cities in the western world. In the retaliation, all of Russia would be destroyed, world in turmoil…

It was a joke…

Geez. Linux community is extremely uptight and extremely triggered by any challenge, even whimsical. Relax guys. But seriously, Firefox kind of sucks.

So just to install chrome?

Edit: I got down voted for saying people use edge for downloading Chrome. A lot of edge lovers here, who would have known?

I know the Linux community doesn’t want to know, but Firefox is not as belowed as you might think.

Maybe. On the other hand, we have seen that Russians are slow to learn and adapt, but in the end they do.

It’s good, it’s great for Ukraine if they do. If Russia finds resources somewhere else, this could end up being a pointless excursion.

Absolutely! The whole narrative has already changed. I think the slow and confused response from Russia as they are struggling to find resources to stop this incursion is what speaks the loudest. … but, at some point they will find those resources. If there is no progress anywhere inspite of this?

I know we are all happy Ukraine taking land like this, having some military success. I don’t want to be a downer, but it’s also a liability taking land you have no desire to hold. Sure I understand all the benefits of this, absolutely. It’s great success. I just hope it translates into frontline changes where it matters more.