Ukraine is turning the tide against Putin. What happens next should terrify Europe – A ceasefire in Ukraine would not demobilise the Russian army… It would release ex-convicts
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Ukraine is turning the tide against Putin. What happens next should terrify Europe – A ceasefire in Ukraine would not demobilise the Russian army… It would release ex-convicts
Posted by nar_tapio_00
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This is really important for everyone, but especially those of us in Europe, to take in:
> Whisper it quietly, but the tide may be turning in the war in Ukraine. Yet what comes next should worry us all.
> Though the Kremlin attempts to project strength with its assaults on Ukrainian cities, the evidence tells a different story. Moscow’s forces are slowly ceding territory to the Ukrainians as their logistics lines are cut. Russian conscripts are dying in their thousands as Ukrainian drones relentlessly hammer them.
> On the domestic front, discontent is growing with high prices and punitive taxes. At a recent gathering of economic officials inside the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin himself acknowledged that Russian GDP had shrunk by nearly 2 per cent in 2026, and Russia’s finance ministry and central bank privately warned of critical risks to economic stability. Anton Siluanov, the Russian finance minister, has even warned Putin that the financial situation is spiralling out of control, as Russia veers towards recession.
> This has not happened by accident. Ukraine has quietly been pursuing a brilliantly ruthless twin-track strategy that has slowly turned the war around.
> [continues] ([in archive](https://archive.is/To3qO) if you hit problems finding it)
What this doesn’t clearly say is that the newly released Russian convicts will be looking to get away from Russia. Russia has already used immigration as a weapon, dumping thousands of Middle Eastern immigrants mixed with spies on the Polish-Belarusian border. Places like the UK, and especially Germany, have Russian immigrant populations with mixed backgrounds. Some great people working against the regime who need our support, but also many are supporters of Russian invasion working as a 5th column.
The article mentions Ukraine using drones to target the war machine pipeline like oil refineries. The geopolitical landscape is exactly why the United States targeted Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. Those actions have benefit Ukraine infinitely more than continuing to hand them money. We’re hitting Russia’s ongoing availability to resources that keep the war machine going.
Brilliant maneuvers that Trump doesn’t get credit for when we think about avoiding full-scale conflicts even though the Iran one is particularly more messy.
A combination of wartime innovation + US intelligence is what turned the tide. Plus Ukrainians never ending resolve for independence.
It’s respectable, badass even. Although I wish we negotiated more out of our investment in them, I support their defense initiative
I think if anything, their success just shows how shitty the last administration was. They were so slow to give the Ukrainians…anything advanced. On top of that, they negotiated next to nothing for the stuff we did give them.