re: #85 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s been my belief all along that Putin is just planning on going at this forever, knowing that attrition will occur, and that the US will eventually give up.

The Trumpian Republicans have already sided with Putin.

No matter the losses by Russia, Putin doesn’t care. The conquest of Ukraine is so tied into the idea of Russian-ness for a segment of the Russian population, that Putin knows he can continue.

Respectfully disagree, the GQP and Russia are using each other to achieve their own goals. Russia’s initial goal was to take and hold Kyiv long enough that the civilian government went into exile and the West all but surrendered the whole of the country to Moscow. As they’ve failed to achieve that goal, they’ve downgraded to forcing the Westto sign off on their annexation of 1/3 of the country while backing away from Kyiv for fear of “provoking” further violence. Meanwhile, the GQP’s goal is largely the same as it was when the war began, which is to deal Biden a major foreign policy “loss” that they can campaign upon next year by accusing him of getting the US involved in a hopeless fight.