Quote Originally Posted by drillerpie View Post
They are struggling with manpower (sending people in to battle on crutches for example) but for them that's culturally acceptable somehow, and more of a medium term problem logistically for the reasons Queensland mentioned.

They are definitely running out of hardware though. You can quite easily find videos of Russians being sent into battle on golf carts, tractors and whatever else. They have been burning through Soviet era stockpiles of tanks which can be monitored from satellite images and are almost depleted.

A ceasefire would be absolutely great for Putin now so he can restock for round 3. Maintaining supplies to Ukraine or even increasing them would be a nightmare for him.
Trump knows this. He could support Ukraine for a while longer and have Russia on its knees and have them completely out of the picture as any sort of superpower. A massive win for the US and the security of the West.

On the other hand there are those p!ss tapes.